In recent years, governmental and non-governmental organizations in Tanzania have faced a high number of students who fail on the different levels of education, especially in the government schools and high schools. Due to all that facts, the government, together with the different stakeholders on education, professors from the different universities, member of the parliament, the cabinet, and teachers, introduces the “BIG RESULTS NOW” program. The initiative is comprising of the research that came out with the recommendation that the parents and the teachers are the main parts to the cause of the students’ mass failure. The parents have become the root cause of this students’ mass failure and that is all because there is no clear classification of the students’ behaviors.
In 2007, more than 5,000 of the country’s students failed on the national examination which become a yearly routine in the students’ performance. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. They set measurable and time-bound goals, which range from combating poverty, improve universal primary education, promoting gender equity, and empowering women. To meet the goal of MDGs, there has been an increasing expectation on the impact of education programs on the different societies within Tanzania from the government, private sectors, and charity organizations.
Then, we would like to raise a question, “Why most students are failing on their examination?” This is because the formal relationship between the parents and students, students and teachers, parents and teachers, or the community and the teachers tend to become divided on ensuring to raise the students’ educational performance. One of the reasons might be because parents become more thinking about their responsibility and business more than their children (mostly their behavior and their educational performance). In addition, the community where the students fail is sometimes the main cause for the failure since there is no provision of information to the students’ behavior. Hence, it leads to the high number of students walking on the streets during the class time.
With that, we at Sunsocer Community Development Foundation are here to join in helping not only to add educational information but to provide better education.