Government School or Private School who cares!!! We need quality education
Private schools originally became popular and well patronised as a result of government's lackadaisical and nonchalant attitude towards providing and ensuring a standard educational system in the country.
Today, they are everywhere to provide an all round educational standard that the government would not provide. They are there to make schools open and available to students when government schools have been locked as a result of consistent strikes by their angry and hungry teachers.
The last time my brother wrote his Junior WAEC and NECO in his school, a private school that refused to render assistance to its candidates by dictating or copying answers for them on the board, a friend of my mum who also had a student in the same class complained bitterly to her about the school's insensitivity towards the success of her students.
She had concluded that the only reason why the school management would do that was because they wanted their students to repeat, so the parents in their choiceless state would pay twice for the same class. Very lame. Isn't it? That came from an educated woman! A level 10 government school teacher!
Sadly, most parents do not see private schools as standard schools, until their children have passed their WASSCE and NECO excellently. 'My child must pass, even if he knows nothing' is all they care for. Afterall, they are paying for it. Some parents would enrol their kids into private schools after four, five years in public schools just to ensure their children get the needed special assistance when its time to write external examinations.
Today, we see private schools promoting students that merits no promotion, because they don't want to upset parents and make them withdraw their children. They work with numbers, hence nothing except graduation must decrease their students' population.
Today, private school teachers are incapable of dishing proper discipline to erring students. Some schools instructs teachers to give a 'he is very attentive and responsible' comment in the report card of a student who is obviously irresponsible, very unserious and less enthusiastic about his/ her academics.
Today, senior students who can hardly construct a three paragraphs essay without grammatical blunders and wrong spellings; students that are incapable of doing simple 2+6/2 arithmetic and have never stretched their reading abilities extensively are bagging As and Bs in WASSCE and NECO. Some of these schools even assists students during junior WAEC and NECO exams. What a school!
Today, there are lots of half baked private schools with half baked teachers and standards. No conducive learning facilities and environment, yet they are government approved schools. Some others with average/standard facilities threw qualitative education and discipline into thin air. Everything is more of the profits rather than value and dignity. What products are they aiming to give to the society?
Today, most of these students already lost confidence in themselves. They believe they can't pass external examinations on their own without being assisted. Most of them are too relaxed and bothers not about reading. Why are they paying huge and ridiculous amount of money? Afterall, it is their duty to pay and the schools' to make sure their students pass these external examinations excellently.
Government schools are not in any way better. True. Less than 17% of them give standard and quality education. True. I attended one of the best government secondary schools in Lagos, where the provision of standard education was quite commendable for a government school. They also didn't promote students who merit no promotion or render assistance during external examinations throughout my stay. I believe there are still few government like that and private schools that could be better.
If as a parent, I have to put my children in private schools because I feel they can provide them with standard learning facilities and equipments; If I have to pay huge amount of money to get the best for my kids, then the outcome should really worth it. My children should be able to think with their heads and be more than capable of writing internal and external examinations on their own.
They should give honest reports and comments on my children's indoor and outdoor academic, as well as moral performances. Some parents knows these things already. They just need these schools to confirm it, so they could work with them and look for ways to improve the ability of their kids.
Parents should stop forcing school authorities to promote their children when they fail exams. You are outrightly placing your children beneath their contemporaries in life, Instead, work hands in hands with schools to help these kids cultivate good reading habit and acquire knowledge.
Let us stop churning out half baked students with poor heads and good grades.
Today, they are everywhere to provide an all round educational standard that the government would not provide. They are there to make schools open and available to students when government schools have been locked as a result of consistent strikes by their angry and hungry teachers.
The last time my brother wrote his Junior WAEC and NECO in his school, a private school that refused to render assistance to its candidates by dictating or copying answers for them on the board, a friend of my mum who also had a student in the same class complained bitterly to her about the school's insensitivity towards the success of her students.
She had concluded that the only reason why the school management would do that was because they wanted their students to repeat, so the parents in their choiceless state would pay twice for the same class. Very lame. Isn't it? That came from an educated woman! A level 10 government school teacher!
Sadly, most parents do not see private schools as standard schools, until their children have passed their WASSCE and NECO excellently. 'My child must pass, even if he knows nothing' is all they care for. Afterall, they are paying for it. Some parents would enrol their kids into private schools after four, five years in public schools just to ensure their children get the needed special assistance when its time to write external examinations.
Today, we see private schools promoting students that merits no promotion, because they don't want to upset parents and make them withdraw their children. They work with numbers, hence nothing except graduation must decrease their students' population.
Today, private school teachers are incapable of dishing proper discipline to erring students. Some schools instructs teachers to give a 'he is very attentive and responsible' comment in the report card of a student who is obviously irresponsible, very unserious and less enthusiastic about his/ her academics.
Today, senior students who can hardly construct a three paragraphs essay without grammatical blunders and wrong spellings; students that are incapable of doing simple 2+6/2 arithmetic and have never stretched their reading abilities extensively are bagging As and Bs in WASSCE and NECO. Some of these schools even assists students during junior WAEC and NECO exams. What a school!
Today, there are lots of half baked private schools with half baked teachers and standards. No conducive learning facilities and environment, yet they are government approved schools. Some others with average/standard facilities threw qualitative education and discipline into thin air. Everything is more of the profits rather than value and dignity. What products are they aiming to give to the society?
Today, most of these students already lost confidence in themselves. They believe they can't pass external examinations on their own without being assisted. Most of them are too relaxed and bothers not about reading. Why are they paying huge and ridiculous amount of money? Afterall, it is their duty to pay and the schools' to make sure their students pass these external examinations excellently.
Government schools are not in any way better. True. Less than 17% of them give standard and quality education. True. I attended one of the best government secondary schools in Lagos, where the provision of standard education was quite commendable for a government school. They also didn't promote students who merit no promotion or render assistance during external examinations throughout my stay. I believe there are still few government like that and private schools that could be better.
If as a parent, I have to put my children in private schools because I feel they can provide them with standard learning facilities and equipments; If I have to pay huge amount of money to get the best for my kids, then the outcome should really worth it. My children should be able to think with their heads and be more than capable of writing internal and external examinations on their own.
They should give honest reports and comments on my children's indoor and outdoor academic, as well as moral performances. Some parents knows these things already. They just need these schools to confirm it, so they could work with them and look for ways to improve the ability of their kids.
Parents should stop forcing school authorities to promote their children when they fail exams. You are outrightly placing your children beneath their contemporaries in life, Instead, work hands in hands with schools to help these kids cultivate good reading habit and acquire knowledge.
Let us stop churning out half baked students with poor heads and good grades.
