Delta’s Schools of Sorrow: Trapped in decaying, unsafe public school classrooms

*Children, teachers wait for ‘conducive learning environment’ promised by government
By Egufe Yafugborhi
The classroom has no roof. The walls are cracked, windows disappeared. In another block, there are no doors. In yet another, the toilet has collapsed.
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Yet, every morning, children still come. They come carrying exercise books, pencils and the dreams their parents have entrusted to public education. 
Some sit on bare floors. Others squeeze into few surviving desks. 
Teachers stand before them and improvise, teaching lessons on education, discipline and a better future in environments that ...