I know something on this subject has been discussed before in Wazua. But I did a search and could not find answers to my question below.

Let me start with my own experience in brief.

Primary education – I went to a rural DEB public primary school, from nursery to class eight. We usually used to walk barefoot to and fro, a distance of about 2.5km. From nursery to class four we were in mabati structure, and only graduated to masonry structure from class 5 to 8. The floor was not paved, and we each had to carry 3 litre jerrycan to water the dusty floor.

High School – I went to a public high school. In many respects it was a huge leap from my previous barefoot condition. Being a public school however, many facilities were in a state of disrepair. In the bathrooms, for instance, we had flushing toilets. But I bet the flushing mechanism had never worked for decades and no one seemed to care. So, there would be manual cleaning of the bathrooms once a day, Monday to Friday. The population was 500+, so you can imagine the situation in the bathrooms Sat and Sun. Most furniture in the school could have earned a slot in the national museum and must have seen better days.

College – I went to a public university. In many respects the facilities were much better than previous condition and I considered this a huge leap.

Now the 60 milion dollar question.

When we joined form one, there were kids who came from private primary school with excellent facilities. Unfortunately, they could not cope with the poor facilities and state of neglect and either had to get transfers or their grades had to go down and never recovered due to demoralization. As for me, there was real progression at each level and by God's grace I was able to concentrate.

Now that there is real craze to take kids to private primary schools many with excellent facilities, how do you manage their transfer to not so well run public high schools to avoid the pit fall noted above?

Is it better to stick with public schools right from primary level?? Discuss.

Adversity is a good thing. With some support it brings out the best character.

So once again I say, Spartan conditions are preferable to Athenian ones. Think of the Pelopponesian war.

Do private primo, private seco then they can be day scholars in public universities or you do private universities as well.

Parental support is everything.

Personally, I went from a poor hardship primary school to a top national school. The rich kids we had tended to be bullys and de-railers.

@Euge- really? Mention a common phrase or place, maybe we can then start DEB (...) wazua old pupils association!