Telenovelas and it's effects on the Ghanaian pupil

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Sometimes I feel very sad when I see my pupils roaming about in town as if they had nothing to do in future. They seem so helpless that one can think of them as being "aimless" but on a second thought, they are not to blame since they can't do anything about their current fate.


 Final year pupils are the ones I am worried for the most. Why do I say that?
Most of these pupils come from less privileged homes where access to online teaching platforms is a big challenge. Those who have access to such platforms too make little or no use of them but rather pay attention to "unnecessary " contents on television, which at the long run do not have any positive impact on their education. 

You will see two or three pupils gathered somewhere as if the are discussing educational issues. Go near them and you would be surprised to hear them discuss what happened in the last episode of a telenovela they watched the previous night. Those that didn't get the opportunity to watch are waiting from the repeat. 

Why this long post?
I think this is the time that our numerous television stations change from telenovelas to showing "Booknovelas" where they would be showing contents on education for the children to benefit rather than showing contents that do not have educational importance to these children, who we all agree they are the future of this country. 

Nana Kwaku Offei 
A worried and a concerned teacher.

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