Palmers Parties With Pupils & Parents

 Palmers Parties With Pupils & Parents

The management of Palmers Nursery and Primary School Mbengwi has held a Christmas fête with parents, pupils and teachers during a ceremony to officially close the first term. This was on Friday December 18 2020 in the courtyard of the Mbengwi council

The ceremony gave a rare opportunity for the nursery and primary school pupils to showcase their talents in singing, drama, dancing, rhyming just to name these few. Prizes were also awarded to those that performed well in the first term examination. At the end of the day, all the kids ate Christmas rice and took home some snacks offered by the school.

Drama on the Birth of Jesus

Pupils Eating Christmas Rice

Ballet Dance

Addressing the parents, the head teacher regretted many of them still owe fees for their kids. She pleaded that despite the hard times, they should endeavour to comply before the commencement of the second term to avoid issues of children being sent back home for fees thus distorting their smooth learning process. 

Other lay private schools within the municipality also closed same Friday for the Christmas holiday. There's been a great improvement in school attendance this year in Mbengwi after over two years of complete shutdown enforced by non state armed fighters. Unfortunately most kids still can't enjoy their basic right to education because they can't access private schools since proponents of school shutdown finally shifted their initial stance  , this time around permitting schools to resume but on condition that government schools must remain shutdown.

Cross Section of Parents

Cross Section of Palmers Nursery & Primary School Kids

Prize Award

Over 3/4 of schools in Mbengwi  subdivision are government owned. Just about seven lay private and mission nursery and primary schools are currently functioning, all within the central town. In some areas most especially the suburbs, parents have been organising community schools for their children. The Senior Divisional Officer of Momo, Fouda Etaba Nicaise has repeatedly referred to such schools as illegal requesting for them to be shutdown. The community school in Bessi Fomukong village that had over 50 pupils was shutdown weeks after going operational due to fears of the unknown

Some opinion holders have continued to wonder where final year pupils in such community schools shall register and seat in for promotion exams into secondary schools such as Common Entrance and First School Leaving Certificate. The whole of the Bome valley for example made up of 7 villages has no private or mission primary/secondary schools except Ku. The parents and kids here like elsewhere re frustrated.

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While the decision to finally let schools function was greatly saluted, many still think the ban on government schools is counterproductive as a majority of schools across the NW/SW regions are government owned and so for the sake of the unfortunate kids in such areas should be allowed to function till the time those advocating for no schooling in government schools shall build their own schools and develop their syllabuses to then start admitting these children. 

To Junior, Precious, Promise, Angel, Nadine in Mbengwi, Friday was a memorable day. To Ijang, Ticha, Anwi, Enih, Njoh, Anoh in Kimbert, Gundom, Mbengbu, Toneku etc, it's a pity there's nothing worth celebrating like their peers in Mbengwi Central town. They've continued to be paying the price for a crisis they know nothing about. However, while some are complaining, others have sent their kids from the suburbs to Mbengwi central so that they can pursue studies, a thing they say is better than sending them to school in Douala, Yaoundé, Bafoussam.