What next for our children as schools are still closed? By Dickson Tumuramye We asked our children to tell us the plans they have since schools are still closed. Each one of them gave us their planned activities. We had an adopted girl in S.3. She told us that she had lost hope after spending three years in the same class. She was in S.3 in 2019 but she did not perform well. We encouraged her to repeat it, not knowing that COVID-19 would hit us and turn things around. She was meant to be finishing S.4 in 2021, but alas, she is still in the same class. She frankly told us that she opted to drop out of school and start working. This girl is not alone who has lost hope and dropped out of school. I have heard of other adolescents who have dropped out of school thinking that they have outgrown their respective classes. Some have been impregnated and others have married. When you ask children the class they are in, you see them struggling to give an exact answer because they are als