Vikki's friends had gotten used to this quote by Harukin Murakami because that's always her response each time they complain about the number of hours she spend in the library. Her aunt had told her earlier that she needed to study hard, even outside the school syllabus because having a unique thought was the major thing that got her the lucrative job that she's currently doing and Vikki was determined to do just that.
Precious; one of Vikki's friends on the other hand was a dependent student who almost lost her friends because they hated the shame of relating with someone who has been caught cheating in the exam hall times without number.
Her friends decided to make her do her homework on her own on a fateful day and apparently she didn't do it since there was nobody to copy, she therefore decided to feign sickness and rest at the sick bay throughout Mr. Kolapo's class.
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"I sent for you ma" said the school counsellor to Mrs. Gorge; Precious' mum.
She asked her about Precious' academic performance and how they have been assisting her with her homework. Mrs Gorge was dumbfounded and the counsellor told her that she was at the sick bay the previous day eavesdropping Precious as she was soliloquising on how she would have been a better student if her mum had not indulged her to play while her elder brother writes her homework for her.
Mrs Gorge felt bad because she has tried to correct that since her daughter got admitted to the high school but she just seem to have lost interest in studying. Everyone knows Mrs Kome as a blunt counsellor.... Mrs Gorge therefore had to accept the bitter truth since it's for the betterment of her daughter.
Mrs Kome added that if we don't want to breed uneducated graduates in our society, children are to be guided, not otherwise.
"Readers are leaders and vice versa". Independent studying has to start from childhood so that they won't be lazy to read whenever they have the opportunity to read books that will add value to their lives outside school.
Mrs. Gorge thanked her and promised to change and not to repeat the same mistake on her younger children.
If you don't study now that you have exams to write, will you be able to study books that will add value to you when there are no grades attached?
Yesterday was world book day and I just wish to show you the importance of studying. Read good books, read your Bible and become a better person.
Happy belated world book day.
~ Deborah Ajala.
Interesting...continue the good work dear..
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