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16 Factors that Killed the Nigerian Educational System at the Primary and Secondary Level

 16 Factors that Killed the Nigerian Educational System at the Primary and Secondary Level

By Emeka Esogbue


Teacher: (To one of his male students) Why are you so rough? Why do you behave like this? Tell me, is this how you behave at home?


Student: No, Aunty, my father will 'kill' me if I behave like this at home


Teacher; (Looking surprised) Then, why did you choose the school to behave like this? 


Student: (Talking with boldness) Aunty, it is because you, people don't flog us here.


My comment:


One of the worst things that happened to the Nigerian education system in recent times, is the entreant of the private schools, uncontrolled by the government. It helped to bury the primary and secondary school system. 


School ownership turned schools to businesses - a profit-making venture to the detriment of impartation of discipline


The Factors


1. School owners prefer students to teachers. Teachers are nothing and students being money are everything


2. Children are no longer to be punished to avoid their parents removing them from the school


3. Where a teacher and a student clash, the school management back the student


4. Students take advantage of the school owner's greed over their teachers to disrespect the teachers


5. Parents take advantage of school owner"s greed over the teachers to frequently and flagrantly move to the school to report teachers


6. Parents move to schools violently to confront and attack teachers


7. There are no longer provisions for the positions of students after examination in report cards, something that helped to determine the performance of a child before now


8. No student ever fails a class and no student ever repeats a class. All students get promoted since the school would desire to admit fresh students to make fast money


9. School owners reel out insults on teachers while students and sometimes, parents watch and cheer them


10. Teachers are not well-paid and get sacked at will by school owners


11. Most times, inspectors from government only return with incentives from private school owners


12. Most private schools are administered by untrained hands educationally


13. Promotions of teachers do not follow due course or any laid down policy but achieved on favoritism and according to the whims and caprices of the school owners.


14. School owners sack teachers at will 


15. In most cases, sacked teachers don't get paid their entitlements and where paid, it is never in full


16. Most teachers lack the wherewithals to take on their employers on judicial ground hence, they accept their situation as it is and move on


- Pen Master

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