A Part of Zain Uganda’s Build Our Nation Education Campaign
Army Boarding Primary School is a boarding school that gives support on military’s children and orphans as well. The boarding school falls on two ministries: the Sports and Education and Defense Mechanics. The school holds 858 girls and 953 boys, which are also receiving gifts from some charitable institutions. These young children were also depending a lot on the welfare and support of the school to keep them going. This had given the school big responsibility to carry all the children in its hands from which they operate educational entities and a welfare institution for the other children.
Just lately, Army Boarding School had just received a donation of 200 textbooks from Zain Uganda’s Build Our Nation Education Campaign. The books were given as Zain launched a 3rd phase with their campaign with which, over 80 schools across 80 districts of Uganda would also get the benefits of the scholastic materials.
Mr. Jonathan Musomoka, the headmaster for the Army Baording Primary School, noted that the school really needs textbooks and these 200 textbooks that they had received is indeed a great help. This may somehow encourage students to improve their learning culture somehow.
In every district, at least one school is being given the assorted textbooks particular to the subjects of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. From the start of launching the program in 2006, Zain Uganda’s Build Our Nation Education Campaign had already delivered 8,000 textbooks, which is worth of 380 Million shillings to 140 schools across the country in the phases of its program.
Boarding Schools Finest Boys
In North Carolina boarding/private schools has giving the finest boys in the city for this current season for the first time, when high school basketball in North Carolina is concern.
Bob Gibbons, recruiting analyst, has accord that the top six high school players in North Carolina are all private school players. Lead by John Wall, the Raleigh Word of God point guard whom is rank as No. 1 or No. 2 in the country by most recruiting services.
Most of the recruiting analyst emphasizes that for the coming years that could maybe lead to forever, best high school players aren’t be coming to most of the public high schools.
Players like Shavlik Randolph of Broughton and Eric Williams of Wake Forest-Rolesville is said to be rare in entering North Carolina public high school instead earning McDonalds All the American honors. Like best players in New York, usually play for team such as All Hallows, Christ the King, Rice and Bishop Molloy.
This scenario has becoming the trend nowadays, begin in public school and then in the later part, transfer at the boarding schools or begin in a private school to start with.
Gibbons has given the top reasons on such trends. First, “Academic concerns and the promise of smaller classes with more personal attention also figure in as well.” And “Private schools also often have the luxury of welcoming proven players.” Then, “North Carolina private schools have different eligibility rules.” NCHSAA players are eligible for eight semesters after ninth grade has been taken. They don’t pursue on a four-year or eight-semester rule, but uses an age limit instead.
Gibbons’ list of top are in North Carolina are as follows, Ravenscroft’s 6-foot-10 Ryan Kelly (a Duke recruit), Asheville Christ School’s 6-11 Mason Plumlee (Duke), Charlotte Latin’s 6-8 David Chadwick (Washington State), Christ School’s 6-5 Lakeem.
Private schools are giving more publicity to those best players as time run-through.
State Boarding Schools: Keeping Students
State Boarding Schools were now undergoing for a revival. Now, government funding finally gives huge demand for places at state-run boarding schools. There are already 35 state schools with boarding facilities and 22 are offering students to board during the week only. State school cost less compared to private sectors with only £7,000 per year, which is equivalent to only 1 term in the private sector.
Hilary Moriarty, the National Director of Boarding Schools Association, says “In general the demand is because boarding suits modern parents.”
“If both parents work long hours, perhaps with frequent business trips abroad, who looks after the children?”
Moriarty believes that parents sees better picture on sending their kids in the state boarding sectors.
State Boarding schools has the good result with a great capability of giving students strong academics and training. Students were also able to learn not just with their academic fields but students were also socially developed wherein they are able to socialize, counteract with other people and make friends.
Malcolm Lloyd, the Chair of the SBSA and head of Brymore School in Somerset has also been a boarder and according to him, being a boarder teaches him to make bed in the hospital corners, clean his shoes, get with other people 24 hours a day, speak in the public and organize himself. He says, “I was also able to excel at sport and make friends for life.”
Brymore actually is in danger of closing but then, the school had just received £3.4m intended to build new boarding accommodation.
It has been worked out for state schools to have better facilities to help vulnerable children. In fact, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has just announced that they are making £10m available fund for the next 3 years to support the expansion of state boarding.
Prank call: Leads to the Boarding Schools lockdown
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October 22, Boarding Schools of Aurora high school and Rootstown schools were receiving calls on gun threat in which safety of children is being forewarned. In this connection, the school yesterday had been locked down near the end of the school day to provide safety to all, may that call be true or a prank one.
Andrew Hawkins, Rootstown’s Superintendent, received the call around 2:30pm, and acclaimed that somebody would be coming to schools with a gun. This made him go panic and call the sheriff office asking for assistance.
Portage County Sheriff Duane Kaley had immediately sent sheriffs deputies and detectives to Rootstown School who are acting like a students and put the safety of students upon giving boarded buses and sent home.
There were 600 elementary students as an approximate who will be dismissed at 3pm as normal classes. And most of the high school and middle class students were gone at that instance for they have been dismissed as their normal classes around 2:10pm.
Hawkins declared that normal classes would be this Thursday, today, while the incident is under investigation.
On the other hand, Aurora high school experienced same incident 5 minutes after classes have been dismissed.
”It was an adult male, we believe from the tone of the voice,” said Russ Bennett, the district’s superintendent. ”It appears to be a crank call, but the police are investigating that,” he added.
The two boarding schools all said that it was a prank call, how about if not? They are considering the safety of children most as what they are saying, how could they declare that today, normal classes will be established when the incident is under investigation? This would be the possibility that must also be considered.
Boarding Schools as Hotels: Great Enough for Parents
Mostly, a student who gets a far distance from school suffers homesickness and doesn’t even feel comfortable being away from the family. Well, such of this situation is really hard for students and parents. Students who got a 5 days school could only be home in weekends and got to miss his family during school days. Schools are looking some means on how to solve this problem and definitely, as being pictured effective, schools might have turn to be like hotels.
Flexi-Boarding has now become popular with private schools. It allows students and parents who commute from far distance to use schools as hotels paying £25 a night several times a week. Other school like the Holmwood House Preparatory in Colchester, Essex allocates free beds by having a weekly draw to those who wanted to stay.
According to the Boarding School’s Association, there are more than 4 out of 10 students who live less than an our away from school with nearly three quarters from homes under an hour and a half’s drive away.
There are 67,000 boarders with the 1,272 registered UK schools in the Independent Schools Council and only 0.4 percent only had rise on the last year.
Head masters of several schools gave chances to busy working parents who still want to see their children by crediting the FLEXI-BOARDING. For them, hotel-style stays eliminate parent’s guilt upon sending their child into a boarding school.
The BSA chief executive, Hilary Moriarty says, “At the dinner table, when shocked mothers say, and ‘You didn’t send your child to boarding school did you?’; parents can say ‘yes, and I’ve seen them twice this week already’, Your conscience is perfectly clear.
Penan Girls boarding School has been charge abused
Boarding School has been legalized to conduct appropriate program that could enhance children academically, physically, mentally and emotionally. Parents are having trusts to those Boarding Schools to take good care of their children while they are away from their care.
But suddenly another alleged news has come up that Penan girls are being sexually abused by logging company workers. Victims of rapes are those students who are having difficulty on rides back and fourth on their way to the very main School.
Students are said to be boarders in two-separated secondary boarding school and only could go back home in times of financial payment is needed. Many of the village leaders in the area have appealed that school should provide access of transportation for the students to prevent such incidents on sexually abused on the street, way back to their boarding school.
Since last year, a 16-year-old student has been pregnant after being raped while she is on her back to her boarding school at the vicinity. And recently she already gave birth. This incident has been done when she join for a ride of those company given transportation. And at the instance they had reached the logging camp, then the driver had refused to continue driving and she was then pulled to the bushes and the crime is then committed.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Mohmad Salleh has launched police investigations on the allegations of sexual abuse at the logging camp for Penan girls by the logging workers. Human Rights Commission, Women, Family and Community Develop-ment had promised to have their own investigation. For them, this is becoming a serious problem since there are victims who are having evidences that they are being abused sexually and immediate actions should be taken.
Muslim Boarding School extended for Indonesian Gays?
It’s really been rare that Muslim boarding School would make doors wide open to welcome gay members in their society. Isn’t it? But for Indonesian gays a great pleasure to have access this opportunity, but how?
In Yogyakarta Indonesia, an Indonesian Islamic Boarding School, special program is being established for Muslims gay during the days of Ramadan, known to be the holiest month in Islamic calendars. Mujahadah al-Fatah as the founder changes the normal world of Muslim nations.
Educators in the boarding school are doing this program having an aim to extend some help to those gay persons to learn more about their faith with the hope that upon doing so, they would realize everything in life and would start living as an ordinary men. They emphasize in Allah’s guidance and faith everything’s they would want to change would happen.
Though Mujahadah al-Fatah has been doing this activity for about 10 years. Still most of the other Islamic Boarding School bans this kind of doings. They called this as “waria,” this is the combination of male and female, an Indonesian word.
Classes are set-up accordingly in twice-a-week classes during Ramadan. These lessons are all about the importance of ceasing on drinks, food and sex during daylight hours. In every year there were more than 20 gays are attending.
If in times you would see gay seems like women wearing headscarves upon reciting the Koran, practicing their faith in Islamic school in the holy month of Ramadan, then that’s it! They are the students who wants alleviate in religion.
During prayers, as required by the Islam policy, most of the students are wearing loose-fitting clothes that could cover their whole body. But gay are wearing sarong and cap, attire for an Indonesian man. And in this way, gay would only goes to show heir dedication to change with the help of Allah.
Boarding School Massacre: 10 persons died
In western Finland, in a boarding school Kauhajoki, Matti Juhani Saari, the gunman, made the ridiculous massacre right at school campus where 10 people died.
Matti Juhani Saari is 22 years old, who is also the student of the said school, had gun himself after being alleged to be the gunman at that incident. Where there were 2 more students has been wounded.
Saari is licensed with a 22-caliber handgun, which has done the shooting 300 kilometers away from the incident. He has died at the Tampere University Hospital with the findings of being self-inflicted wounds. Matti Lehto, the director of the hospital has confirmed that the injury in the head, resulting from his own gunshot, was so bad, which is impossible to operate and the main reason of his death. Same situation with a 21-year-old female student, who is also a victim in that incident, died with the wound in the head.
Before the suspect has been contacted, Saari has done the posting of the video-shooting scene right at the Internet, as Interior Minister Anne Holmlund admitted. In the video, it could be seen that the gunman is wearing a ski mask and carrying a bag before the shoot out. And the school employee, who is quoted by the local media, has made this scenery exact. Due to this, nearby boarding school has been the target point for the next search operation on Saari. Until such time, it was only found out that Saari has done the shooting by himself.
In the countries history, the government has been becoming worried due to these incidents that is actually becoming common. This school bloodshed has been happened for less than a year, where eight people including six students were killed at high school in Jokela, just 60 kilometers away from the area of incidents. In which prior to that, last November 2007, an 18-year-old student gunman has also done the posting in the You Tube in the Internet.
No one could explain why these synonymous things had happen at the land of Finland. Wherein at this point in time, online media sites has publish a kind of news in the sharing site of YouTube with a clip of a young man known as ‘Herra S’, 22 years of age from Kauhajoki. The clip shows a Walther P22 pistol at a shooting range accompanied with the poem ‘and suddenly there was war and the mothers, they screamed.’ Is this would be another treat that he is the next victim? No one could confirm the situation.
Queen’s Elizabeth Boarding School: demands $851 000 cash
At Harare, Queen’s Elizabeth Boarding School is demanding for their student to pay worth of cash with an amount of $851 000. This is an addition with those $204 000 that has been paid at the beginning of the term.
For 400 students in the said boarding school, there were only less than 100 that could attend the class this coming Monday. Parents were only given chances until this Friday to pay the given specific amount, or else face the consequence upon making one child being expelled at the given school. Boarding School also didn’t accepting bank checks or any form on transfer of payment, they only need cash, for accordingly, they needed the cash to buy foods for the student.
Parents express their sentiments to the Boarding School but things didn’t work out as long as they could pay the desired amount. Parents extend their thoughts of emotion to give them enough consideration since the Boarding school has newly done its maximum increase cash withdrawal limit which is $1 000.
The warden of the Boarding School has also confirmed the situation. After all of those students sent back home, there were few student accepted back at the school premises where they possess the exact amount of money in hand. So with the school paymaster accepted the truth and confirmed that ‘til Friday, if things were not paid then it means no boarding school for that student and didn’t explain further.
Some parents were given condition upon letting pay with checks. But student could only go to school seven days after the check has been in cash. It’s quiet been the same as you paid in cash, nothings different, am I right?
Many would sentiments that they’re children are already missing lessons upon not having cash in time. And by November, the boarding school would be doing their final examination.
The school could be unfair, but that’s their implemented rule and nothing would seem to take its bound.
The First Boarding School in Baltimore
A boarding school is a kind of school wherein students doesn’t just study but then student also live during their period of study. Students in a boarding school were also provided with food and lodging. This makes sense with how boarding schools like. Well, there are also different types of boarding school. There are boarding schools, which are exclusive only for girls, others are exclusive only for boys and there are also several boarding schools that are open for boys and girls. Boarding Schools were very common only to the United States but some countries were already opening boarding schools in different levels.
Maryland had just opened its first boarding school at Baltimore City, the SEED School. The boarding school holds its first eighty students whom are all grade six students. SEED School is housed on the 52 acres site of what used to be Southwestern High School.
Tim Tooten, who was a news education reporter at WBAL TV took a tour on the school. He had asked several students about the school. Another student, Malik Cross, says, “It’s kind of fun because we get to talk to our friends. We get to go in each others dorm. Sometimes if we don’t, either way we get to talk to each other and learn more about each other each day.”
Jourdynn Dickerson, a student, says, “It’s really different because I’m learning a whole bunch of stuff I never really knew in elementary school.”
The first eighty students came from the twelve different school districts of Maryland and were there by choice. From the 300 applicants, eighty were being selected across the state to avail the free and reduced-price lunches. The tuition fee of the school ranges $34,000 per year but is being paid by the state and local education dollars and private donations.
The school head, Dawn Lewis, said, “I think the big difference is the idea that we are reinforcing learning on a 24 hour basis. The principles which are taught here aren’t just taught from 8 a.m to 4 p.m. They are taught 24 hours a day.
The students were already getting over their homesickness and will be allowed going home during weekends since the school has a staff and student dormitory. Well, it is a good opportunity for the 80 students to get into SEED. It would certainly give them an opportunity to get into college and somehow achieve a better future someday.