Several teenage or young adults book especially the ones recommended by Jamb are often an eye opener for most students -particulaly, young adults and undergraduates- and I love it except for the single side taking of the 'bright students' who always, at the end, passed WASSCE and secure admission into their dream university to study their dream course- which I believe is almost opposite of the reality at hand. You will notice these novels end abruptly not telling us what happens to other dull students who failed the SSCE. This infuriate me a lot. Are they so useless? There are dull, dumb, bad or whatever kind of students you tag the ones that constantly take the burden of having to come last or worst at the end of every term. The stride and agony of this set of guys are never represented. All Jamb recommended books -Last Days at Forcadoes High School, In dependence and Sweet Sixteen- made attempts to solve the problems of bright students, forgetting that the so called 'dumb' or 'dull' students suffer more anguish than the bright ones actually do. At the most, the bright ones only encounter, probably, bully at school but they are constantly loved by teachers and parents. Unlike the dull ones whose biggest problem may be the evident preference their parents and teachers have for their counterparts who are only better with grades. Sometimes, the dull students, after trying and suffering alone without encouragement or a pat at the back, resort to eccentric harsh behaviors - bully and inflicting harm on others. This is usually the rise to the stubborness and behavioural disorder that will later dominate their lives -if at all they do not become or seen as psychopaths. Now Imagine a Jamb-recommended book that features its main character as the worst graduating student whose parents and teachers doubt his excellence in the WASSCE, and like every one thought, he failed. Then narrate how support from parents, teachers and everyone around him would help him rise above what he could be in his wildest dream. Jamb, I want to see a book about a young person who engage in social vices, but rise beyond this and create a desirable future for himself.
Enough of the bright students stories! At least its better inspiring the uninspired young dumbs than re-inspiring the inspired smart dudes.
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