Learners in government schools struggle to master English alphabet

An eight-year-old boy enrolled in Primary One at Anyeke Primary School, a government aided school in Oyam District in 2023 is unable to memorise the English letters of the alphabet.

His father, also an LC1 chairman in Oyam Town Council, expected that within a span of two years of learning, his beloved last born son would be able to remember all the 26 letters of the alphabet.

Now in Primary Two, the child cannot remember more than 80 per cent letters of the alphabet.

He  could not remember seven letters: T, M, K, R, Y, D and U out of the 10…