As the Ministry of Education -MOE prepares to disburse another batch of study materials to learners across the country, a section of schools in Kampala have asked for an organized plan to avoid discrimination.

This comes as the government plans to roll out 48 Billion Shillings on the materials to distribute to the lower primary section and upper secondary next month.  

However, schoolsclaim the previous distribution mode was marred by various loopholes including discrimination in distribution, delays in delivering the materials, and also lack monitoring processes in place for the learners at home.  

The school heads that commented on the matter the Uganda Radio Network claim that the majority of the learners did not benefit from the learning process because some of the above issues were not addressed.

Some of the school heads from Buganda Road Primary School, of Kololo secondary sch, KCCA Primary School Kamwokya are now opposed to the suggestion of using the village local leaders to distribute the materials to learners at home as it has always been.

They instead want the MOE to come up with better ways for to benefit from the program.

They state that learners need to be monitored by teachers who will reach the learners who can’t access the school premises with materials .

They say the government needs to provide facilitation like airtime and transport for teachers to schools to follow up on the learning process.

‘‘One,they should print enough materials ,then they should create modalities for teachers to follow up on ,because even if they should follow up through a phone it requires airtime and how does a teacher follow up without airtime, provide a program of how the teachers will access the material”David Ssengendo, the headteacher of Buganda Road Primary School.

”Now ,the airtime they gave it to schools to distribute ,but if they are now to give them to the Local council authorities,it becomes difficult to monitor,but the other time they gave them to schools to distribute and students picked them from schoo.that is a better arrangement,it is more orderly.”Edward Kanoonya, the headteacher of Kololo secondary school.

According to the education ministry, the study materials are distributed based on the enrollment of the schools.

However, Dr Dennis Mugimba, the Spokesperson Ministry of Education, says parents are expected to take up the role of supervising their children to ensure that the provided materials are not put to waste.