{"id":10274,"date":"2018-09-28T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10274"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:02:04","slug":"three-failed-students-who-were-allowed-to-pass-likely-to-repeat-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/three-failed-students-who-were-allowed-to-pass-likely-to-repeat-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Three \u201cfailed\u201d students who were allowed to pass likely to repeat class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ornella Ishime, a student who repeated 6th grade at Mugina Basic School (ECOFO Mugina) in Cibitoke Province says her three former classmates have moved to the next class while they had failed. \u201cThey paid money to have new school reports allowing them to be registered in 7th grade in other schools,\u201d she says. Clovis, another student from ECOFO Mugina says the education officials should impose serious measures and return them to the 6th grade as they had failed. \u201cThis is discouraging,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"cibitoke\"Eric Bavyiruze, chairman of the school committee at ECOFO Mugina says the committee has filed a complaint since they heard that the three students who had failed have been admitted to the 7th grade in another school. \u201cThe case has been reported at their school and we are waiting for the feedback,\u201d he says adding that education officials must verify the school documents carefully before receiving new students. Bavyiruze also says parents are worried about the deterioration in the education domain.<\/p>\n

Richard Nduwayo, school teacher from ECOFO Mugina dismisses the allegations. \u201cAll the students who succeeded had 55% at the end of the year. We got serious problems during the deliberation. In fact, only students with 60% were supposed to succeed according to existing school regulations but the headmaster decided that those with 55% move to the next class,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Jean Claude Nzakaha, educational advisor in Mugina Commune says such cases are often reported but are still investigated. \u201cWe have only discovered one case. A 5th grader has changed his school report to move to the 6th grade but the error was corrected,\u201d he says. Mr. Nzakaha calls on headmasters to carefully check the school reports of their students. \u201cInvestigations will be extended to other schools,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Jean Marie Barutwanayo, headmaster of \u201cMikashu\u201d basic school where the three \u201cfailed\u201d students study says he is informed about their case. \u201cThe three students presented official documents testifying that they succeeded. But their former school committee has filed a complaint,\u201d he says.
\n\u201cAfter investigations based on facts, we discovered that they had failed in 6th grade,\u201d he says. The headmaster adds that the three students have less than 55% thus making it impossible for them to pass class.<\/p>\n

Barutwanayo says the three students will go back to 6th grade and investigation will be conducted to other new students. \u201cWe will verify if all new students presented accurate documents,\u201d he says. Iwacu has tried to contact the headmaster of ECOFO Mugina in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ornella Ishime, a student who repeated 6th grade at Mugina Basic School (ECOFO Mugina) in Cibitoke Province says her three former classmates have moved to the next class while they had failed. \u201cThey paid money to have new school reports allowing them to be registered in 7th grade in other schools,\u201d she says. Clovis, another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[1183,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10278,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions\/10278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}