Uganda, Feb. 4 -- The International Day of Education (IDE) was celebrated last week, on January 24, a day before the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) released the 2023 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results. The IDE aims to provide quality education for all children as the global community aims at Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) - Goal 4.

For many years now, PLE results show that the old schools are performing poorly while the newly emerging schools continue to perform well. My former school, Bishop Angelo Negri Primary School (NPS), is one of those schools that has long been performing poorly.

NPS can no longer count itself among the best-performing schools. A long time ago, NPS was one of those schools we were all proud o...