The Proprietor and Founder of the Ju-Semgblor High School, Goba-chop community, Prince Z. Semgbloh, has called on the Ministry of Education to pay attention to private schools, which are helping the government’s drive to improve the education sector.
According to Semgbloh, the Education Ministry has turned its back to private schools, leaving them to fend for themselves and struggle for survival, but proudly takes glory when private schools, in their weak way, boost the image of the education sector.
He reminded the government that all schools across the country—public, private and faith-based—are all grooming Liberian children for the future; as such, government should look in the direction of mainly grassroots institutions that are exerting efforts amidst financial constraints.
He implored the Minister of Education, Prof. D. Ansu Sonii, who is also an educator, to include some, if not all, private schools among schools that will benefit from government’s subsidy. He maintained that public schools alone cannot enroll all the Liberian children, and so government needs to beef up the financial capacity of private schools, in order that they may reduce their tuition and other fees for less fortunate parents to be able to afford to send their children there.
As it regards his school, Semgbloh noted that his institution has not benefited a dime from government since its establishment, but they still manage to put students on football, kickball, debate and quizzing scholarships, as a means of helping to ease financial tension on the parents.
Meanwhile, Semgbloh has called on parents not to give up on investing in their children’s education, as it is the surest way of securing a better future for them.