An shocked citizen took social
media to vent her frustration at the
standard of education in the
country which is falling every day.
Posting the image above of the
assignment which was given to to her 5 year old niece, the Facebook
user went on an epic rant. Read below: "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.. "Where do we start from?"
