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You disappoint yourself by failing, cleric tells candidates

Senior Four and Six candidates of Jinja College in Eastern Uganda have been told to save face by excelling in the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) sitting that starts with briefing of the former today.

The dean of Kamuli Deanery, who's also the parish priest of Kamuli, Rev Fr Benedict Wakabi Kyumakiyaka, while officiating at the dedication of both classes on October 10, told the candidates: “You don’t disappoint your parents by not passing, but (you) disappoint yourself.”

Rev Fr Kyumakiyaka also encouraged the candidates to love their school saying “the history of passing and forming a whole person is in Catholic-founded schools.”

“Catholic-founded schools are known for being rigid because it is not about academic excellence alone, but forming the whole person,” he observed.

He added: “Parents don’t come because there are good buildings. There are schools with better buildings, but they come because our education is not just about academic excellence, but the moral, social, spiritual; and that is why every morning, these boys are meant to go for mass.”