For the majority Tanzanians, it is difficult to attain quality education because of poverty. Parents have no ability to pay the cost of education in good schools. Probably, the government needs to rethink how to improve infrastructure in the ward schools where the majority of poor children attend so that to provide quality education to the majority Tanzanian children. Otherwise, it is a preparation of a small fraction of Tanzanians to benefit from the country’s resources while leaving out the rest.
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Parents say, even if we take this child to schools/he can’t help us. So they opt to leave them without education. You find that if two sibling passes the exam, a child without disabilities will get assistance for further education, not a child with disabilities. The education limitation for a child with a disability is twice that of other poor children. Parents may sell whatever in their disposal to ensure that children attend at least a ward school, but not children with disabilities. A child with disability will be left aside without further education, even if the child is more capable than the other child. Parents’ point is that a child without a disability get will help the one with disabilities in the …show more content…
In our school for example, children with disabilities comprises standard one to five, and we are only two teachers who can master teaching children with disabilities. Do you think two teachers can teach standard one to five? That is an impossible thing! So we tend to focus on standard three, four and five while leaving the standard one and two aside playing. If the government cares that children with disabilities have the right to education. First would be enough teachers in schools. For example, in our municipality, we have made several noises demanding teachers for children with disabilities, but sometimes they tell us that no money, or wait for the fund allocation. Yet, teachers in ordinary schools would like to teach children with disabilities, but no from the district to encourage them to follow their will. They tell them wait first until we have new teachers. This gives us the impression that the government is not ready to support education for children with disabilities. We have two teachers for children with hearing problem and one teacher for children with intellectual disabilities with one