This is a type of blackboard most schools in Oromia are using in the learning-teaching process. Now schools are just opening but such blackboard is going to serve again for more years until it gets 1 inch by 1 inch in size! Unfortunately, this is when the Oromia Government Education Bureau is bluffing for education coverage of over 100%. In fact most of the schools do not have enough number and qualified teachers, basic seats and latrines. In most of the schools in Oromia students are obliged to use bush toilets in the schools they are doing their education. This is very dangerous for further expansion of Cholera, which is already ravaging many people, including Finfinnee (Addis Ababa), in the country.
In the last Academic year more than 800 students took 10th grade National Exam in Michata High School in the same district and only 50 students scored passing mark (no one scored impressive grade at all) to go for higher education. The absence of learning/teaching facilities and use of such blackboard (attached picture) is a real reflection of the poor quality education millions of students in Oromia are getting to date. How could one expect students to be good enough and capable citizen under such poor, weak education services in Oromia?
