The Iganga District Resident Commissioner, Wandela Sadala, has encouraged parents and school managements to embrace patriotism trainings. He said the trainings which were introduce in secondary schools have improved the discipline among students.
Wandela notes that patriotism trainings have helped students to know the history of Uganda like how it was colonized and how it gained independence. He remarked at the pass out of 700 students who have been participating in patriotism training at King of Kings secondary school in Iganga district.
The training involved six secondary schools from Iganga Northern Division. The schools that took part in the training are the host King of Kings SS, Victoria High School, Sula High School, Dynamic SS and Town View SS.
“This training is aimed at changing the students, parents and teachers’ mindset which have reduced on frequent school demonstrations. This has created harmony in a number of schools both private and government schools,” Wandela said.
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Waiswa Zakayo the Patriotism patron coordinator, said such clubs have created unity between the teacher and students. This, according to Waiswa, has led to the improvement in the performance of students academically and physically.
“To implement this chain of patriotism you should start tree plantation in the community especially on every function like introduction ceremony, wedding ceremony, graduation ceremonies and birthdays to improve on our environment hence it will improve on the rainfall formation which led to high agriculture production,” Waiswa said.
Waiswa said low financial supports from the government has affected rolling out patriotism clubs in many schools. Training students to be patriotic, Waiswa said requires feeding the students, they health facilities and transport for the instructors.
“Many students are not health enough even to run a kilometer. This is because they are not allowed to make physical exercises more especially the day scholars. There is also poor feeding at home. I emphasis that the parents need to help the children to have a physical training at home because it is necessary,” Waiswa said.