Permission Slips…for Failure?

Pity the poor children of Jinja, who have lost one of the great privileges of the grade-school years: the right to periodically spend a day at the zoo, museum, or box factory in the name of education. The field trip is no longer welcome in Uganda's second city, having been blamed for declining grades and test scores:

Mr Kamwana said head teachers have a tendency of concentrating on pupils' tours in third term instead of making final touches in preparation for the Uganda National Examination...