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.
Other things can affect a students academic performance but it's not accepted to lure students to Gambling because they get attached to things easily. There are cases of students that dropped out of school because they got addicted to gambling. The reason why gambling is been stressed here is because students are at the vital phase of their life and if they get distracted by an addiction like gambling they could have difficulty on continuing their academic activities, it could be a threat to them