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The Ministry of Education and Sports has moved to tighten enforcement against schools conducting unauthorised holiday teaching, opening a public reporting channel after Parliament raised alarm over what MPs described as a widespread practice depriving children of designated breaks from classroom instruction.
The intervention came on Wednesday after Nansana Municipality MP Zambaali Bulasiyo Mukasa told Parliament that some private and government-aided schools were turning official school holidays into unofficial extensions of the academic term.
His complaint prompted Speaker Jacob Markson Oboth-Oboth to summon State Minister for Education and Sports Peter Ogwang to explain what the government was doing to enforce the official school calendar.
The Minister then put an enforcement tool directly in the hands of parents and the wider public.
Anyone who encounters a school conducting the prohibited practice can report it through the Ministry’s toll-free hotline 0800 377 771, he said.
The Ministry says reports will be routed to the relevant authorities, including police where necessary, for intervention.
Ogwang urged school administrators to respect the calendar and allow children to spend the holiday away from formal classroom routines.
