How grit can pay off in education

 Grit pays off

The place is Manicaland Province. The setting is a rural area called chinembiri in Mutasa District.

There is a school going by the name usimbe High School.  The school has 400 students. Out of those, 45 ave just written  their A level examinations. The year is 2019.

Fast forward into 2019. You have this guy who, upon hearing that the A level results are out, goes to school to collect his. How did he come out? Having done 5 subjects,

25 points!

 25 points. Think again. Here ia a rural guy living in a rural area which for goodness sake , is underresourced, coming out 25 points at Alevel.

25points from a guy whose fees from Form One  have been paid for by BEAM. Obviously, his parents couldn’t afford to pay for him, hence engaging Beam to help.

Nothing new here. Thousands of children are on the BEAM program. More so with the economic meltdown ripping through almost every pocket, purse and wallet. 

Here is the amazing part.

The 25point guy journey to his destiny starts with daily routine,. A daily routine very few will care to believe. Believing or not is another issue. We will still say it out.

The  guy was living with his parents. He has 4 other siblisings after him. Parents have life going tough. So they applied for BEAM assistance upon realizing the boy had potential to do great exploits  in his studies. With the assistance of his teachers, the guy demonstrated complete genius at o lvel when he came out with 6As and 4Bs. 

Then came A level. The story gets juicy. The guy comes up with a study routine so unheard of, only those with the determination of lion would dare take up. The school is 8 km away from his homestead.  What will you do, if you were to find yourself into his shoes. What comes to mind is looking for a place to lodge, somewhere near the school.

Not this guy. Because there are no resources to rent. So what does he do? The decides: after lessons,  I will stay behind to study and go home at 4am in the morning to bath and eat. 

This becomes his life style for 2 straight years until he writes his exams.

Can you sustain that?

Can you run the distance? 

What will it take to engrain such a determination in you. 

A dream. 

Dreams are born out of different ovens. The oven of poverty does wonders. Many stories abound of people who rose from the doldrums of lack, were driven by the need to escape it and fought their way to stardom.