The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has solicited the cooperation of stakeholders to tackle the negative impact of rushing children through education.
Adamu made the call, through a representative Adekola Ben, during the Stakeholders’ Townhall Meeting for the Hurried Child Project in commemoration of the World Day for the prevention of child abuse, held in Abuja.
The minister attributed the phenomenon to the weak regulatory enforcement of the National Policy on Education, the misconception of the interpretation of the country’s 6-3-3-4 system, and the lack of sensitization on the negative impact of the practice on the child and society.
“It is in the light of the foregoing that I urge quality assurance agencies and practitioners to be up and doing in tackling this menace,” he said.
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In his remark, the Senior Education Specialist of the World Bank Country Office in Abuja, Dr Olatunde Adekola, advised parents to slow down “the process of hurrying up a child into a mini adult” as proposed by child psychologists.
While defining the ‘hurried child syndrome’ as “a process of transferring their children from childhood to adulthood overnight by skipping the process of natural growth,” he said the practice has harmful effects on the child.
In her remark, the CEO of A Mother’s Love Initiative, which is the non-governmental that organized the event, Hanatu Enwemadu Esq, said the programme was put together to sensitise parents and school owners on the dangers hurrying the child poses to the future of the country.
