Government Model Secondary School, Maitama, Abuja, runs extra lessons for her students after the school hours and charges parents whose children participate in the extra lessons.
It is a welcome development but something is wrong about it and should be corrected before it is too late.
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The teachers that take these students during the extra lessons teach in the same school and prefer attending to the students only when it is time for the extra lessons.
It may interest you to know that during the school hours, some of the teachers go for their personal businesses after signing the attendance register and return when it is time for the extra lessons.
Some of those who stay without going out after signing the register still don’t attend to students.
They log into social media platforms to chat, post, like pictures, like videos, watch them, comment on them and do many other things to while away time until that period for extra lessons.
Parents whose children attend extra lessons pay N3,000 per student every month.
This is a supreme cheating. The teachers in question collect their salaries at the end of every month for doing nothing.
Thereafter, they collect what the parents pay for extra classes to add to their salaries.
Therefore, it is obvious that those who can’t afford to pay for the so called extra lessons won’t learn anything since these teachers don’t teach during the school hours.
It is sad that almost all the teachers at this school participate in this arrangement.
I hope the FCT Education Secretariat would discourage this when schools resume.
Awunah Pius Terwase, Mpape, Abuja
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