I Stumbled on a news that "Betting Companies in Uganda Luring Students to lost their Futures" with fake bonuses and promise of big wins. According to the explanation, the time you use in the casino
Anything can affect a child's educational performance, we should not see gambling nas the only thing that does so, too much playing can contribute to poor performance, lack of balance diet and malnutrition in a child can cause a lot of psychological and emotional imbalance causing poor performance in academic, while gambling should be seen as a way of introducing series of games to children to play without money being involved, in other to help exercise their brain for more increased active participations, thereby boosting their brain and academic performance.
Absolutely right, gambling isn't the only thing that students can get addicted to, people forget that that there's also drug addiction, alcohol and so on, all these can also affect the childs educational performance. But gambling is focused on the topic because it's the most dangerous especially for a student, let's not forget that gambling addiction can lead to other addictions too. Your suggestion is brilliant, turning gambling into a positive tool for mental development would be lucrative, it shouldn't be done to earn or stake money.
But here we are discussing how gambling will affect students education career and not drug addiction. Though it is only foe those students who are addicted to gambling that would be affected because those students would play games in the classrooms and study periods. And I believed it is because of the way our leaders have abandoned education and there is no value in education is the caused of all these behaviors I'd students in the tertiary institutions.