The Scary Thing About Our New Generation Schools

Shout out to all the mommies and daddies and uncles and aunties and all other categories of people who have wards or kids in school today. I remember those days back in school, I had this class mate whose mum was always coming to schools to make scenes and call-out teachers who were 'maltreating' her child. The child in question was actually very naughty and always attracted beatings. It seems parents and guardians still have to pay several visits to schools these days, but for vastly different reasons now. Some of these schools and teachers just need to be set straight. Wouldn't you go to a school where they give your child the kind is assignment in the photo below? I think you would, at least to go and ask just what exactly they mean to achieve.

 Intact, I don't even know what to say about this. You just need to read what this lady has to say about some of the weird schools around now.

Via Facebook/Abiodun Kuforiji Nkwocha

This is the homework given by a school to a 5 year old.
I am very certain that when I become a mother, and my child (ren) are in this country, I'm going to be the scourge and headaches of some schools. 

Last year, my niece was given an assignment on figures. A girl that was 4 years old then, you asked her to write 50 - 100 and you asked her to write such in a 2A exercise book. 

You didn't rule the pages of the 2A, you just gave it to her like that. Except memory must have failed me, the exercise book for writing figures is 2B. The little girl got confused at a point, the tired mother spanked her, her cries touched me so raw and I had to go look at what was causing all the noise and tears. 

I saw it and I asked the mom if any teacher gave her such assignment in a 2A notebook while she was the daughter's age. I wrote a note to the class teacher, pinned it on Emmanuella's uniform and asked that it should be delivered to the class teacher. Anyway, the nonsense stopped for a short while. 

If as a parent I send my ward to your school, you in turn now give my child any nonsense homework, then I will let you realise that I can send the Ministry of Education after you. 

Some will give homework that any sane person knows that it is the parents that will eventually do it. My parents, my elder brothers never did any of my homework for me. 

Homework is meant to test if the child has a good grasp of what you imparted and also to see if your method of teaching is working. You don't test me as a parent. You test your pupil and you make an assessment of your own teaching skills. 

What sort of nonsense assignment is this? What concerns a pupil with Sir Shina Peters? Is this part of the school's curriculum? Some will ask parents to pay for excursions and the destination for such will be shoprite or Eko hotel. Are these schools mad houses or what? And parents still send their children there? 

The other day, one mushroom school in my neighbourhood at Badagry was teaching one useless rhyme... "left right left right, ikebe no dey heavy the owner, left right.." I was beyond shock. 

There is an open community well right in front of the school, an uncovered well. I wrote about it and a cousin came inbox to tell me I shouldn't expose the neighbourhood school like that.nWhere do we start from?

Source: Facebook/Agbaosi Sevezun Gloria 

Whatever you do, do not simply abandon you children/wards to the schools. Give them serious close monitoring!


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