It is alleged that Government Model Secondary School, Maitama, Abuja, runs extra lessons for its students after the school hours and equally gets paid for doing so from the 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.
The teachers that take these students during the extra lessons teach in the same school as government-owned teachers but 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 register to show they have come to school and return when it is time for the extra lessons.
Some of these teachers that manage to 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 while away time until that period for extra lessons.
Parents whose children attend extra lessons pay N3, 000 per student after the end of every month.
This is supreme cheating. The teachers in question collect their salaries at the end of every month for doing nothing. They, thereafter, collect what the parents pay for extra classes to add to their salaries and continue with the act.
Therefore, it is obvious to see that those who cannot afford to pay the needed amount for the so called extra lessons, their children will not learn anything since these teachers do not teach during the school hours.
However, it is sad that almost all that teach at the school in question as government-owned teachers are, at the same time, the extra lessons’ teachers who do not perform as government’s teachers but receive their salaries and perform as private teachers to the parents that enrolled their children in for extra lessons.
The FCT Education Secretariat should discourage this so that it will discontinue after the resumption of schools!
Awunah Pius Terwase,
Mpape, Abuja.
09052385238
