OVERCROWDING IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Some pictures recently surfaced on Facebook of students in new Komba High School in Komba LLG Kabwum District cramming up to look at questions on the blackboard during a Mathematics Test.
Without proper learning materials for students and teaching materials for teachers, schools in rural areas such as the Komba High School are having a hard time accommodating students in their small classrooms.

The uploader of the photos, Wes Kalipe, who is a Mathematics Teacher at the newly established High School in his Facebook post stated that the struggle is real. 
Kalipe said "No Paper, No Toner, No Proper Rooms, No Assistance, Pure Determination."
Even though the students as well as the school is facing difficulties in their learning environment, Kalipe said that the students are as determined as any genuine students with ambitions and goals and will not let such small setbacks break their spirit and their desire to learn.

Schools in rural areas receive less funding from the government and most of the times miss out on the Government's Tuition Fee Free (TFF) Policy funding. The teachers are ill equiped with teaching materials, from textbooks to chalks, etc. Classrooms can barely hold students, each class is filled to the brim with at least 60 or so students to a class.
The teacher to students ratio is about 50:1, the students face difficulties in learning in such small classrooms.
As can be seen in the pictures, students are sitting on the ground because there are no desks for them to sit on.

The TFF Policy is a failed policy that needs to be done away with, the government needs to focus more on schools in rural areas.