Monrovia – A student of the Susan Brooks AME Elementary and Junior High School has described as “shameful” the persistent habit of state actors labeling Liberia’s school system as a mess.
Student Albertha C. Blidi noted that it is the responsibility of the Liberian Government to put in place relevant mechanisms to enhance the country’s school system instead of being the very ones to ridicule the system on both local and international wires.
Delivering her valedictory address on Friday July 8, at the 26th graduation and closing exercise of the Susan Brooks AME Elementary and Junior High School in Monrovia, Blidi said although there are many challenges confronting the educational sector of Liberia, she believes the system can be improved.
Blidi said: “Fellow students, we find ourselves in a country where corruption has a mutual relationship with people who corrupts state’s resources and go with impunity. We find ourselves in a nation where vast majority of our female students are found in the act of seducing male instructors for grades.”
Continued Blidi: “We find ourselves in a country where justice is a friend of the rich man and enemy of the poor man. That is the country we find ourselves.
Yet still, we live in a society where the proliferation of harmful drugs is the order of the day. It’s so scaring how the next generation will look! What country is this?”
Blidi who managed to dux the entire school and got a promotion from grade 9th to 10th challenged Liberians to constructively flag-out societal ills which will lead to progress.
Blidi noted that Liberians need to devote more time on fixing the system than criticizing it, adding that corruption must be fought within homes, schools and the society at large.
Said Blidi: “To my fellow students, we need to give our parents unconditional respect than to look at their faces and inflict underserved insults or abusive languages on them.”
“To the female students, we need to devote more time in studying our lessons than giving our bodies to instructors for grades.”
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