Teachers’ Attitudes Responsible for Poor Education in Kogi Public Schools – Commissioner
She made the lamentation, Thursday, during an inspection tour of schools to monitor the resumption of primary and secondary schools pupils for the new term in selected schools within Lokoja metropolis.
Mrs. Osikoya, who expressed disappointment over the way teachers in the schools she monitored treated the issue of their return to classes, expressed shock at some of the negative things she discovered.
The Commissioner who wondered why some school head teachers could be careless with the issue of record keeping about the schools they head, said she was surprised that some of them could not even maintain the academic records of their students, lamenting that she was let down by what she met on the ground.
She said some teachers could not even prepare for the classes they were supposed to teach as they failed to prepare a lesson plans for the classes they were supposed to take, and advised them to change their attitudes towards their jobs.
In her words: “When policy makers make certain decisions, people begin to shout about witch-hunting when in actual fact, they are the ones witch-hunting themselves. Some of the things I saw here are as shocking as they are unacceptable in the modern times that we are in.
“Teachers hold the ace to our education sector. They are responsible for the kinds of children we have in the society today. The growth and development of society is largely anchored on the kind of education we give to the young ones, and I must tell you that I am shocked that we don’t have teachers of science courses, instead we have majority of them teaching Religion and the Arts,” she lamented.
Mrs. Osikoya, who conveyed the empathy of Governor Yahaya Bello to the teachers, praised them for the hard work they are putting in and called on them to redouble their efforts towards bettering the sector.
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