| Until the government decides to come up with an | | | | the world where children take decisions on what |
| effective monitoring team on private secondary school | | | | school to be registered for SSCE and JAMB. The |
| institutions in Nigeria, things will surely remain bad for | | | | yardstick for determining the best of schools and a |
| that sector in the country. However, I doubt if this can | | | | particular one to pass through is that institution where |
| be effectively achieved since the wives of senior | | | | students are encouraged to involve in examination |
| political office holders and aides are the proprietresses | | | | malpractice. Interestingly, evidences now abound on |
| of the private secondary schools in the country thus | | | | proprietors/proprietresses purchasing SSCE and |
| relegating the public owned schools to the background | | | | JAMB forms for their student-candidates at high costs |
| in what has become a shame for the country. Owing | | | | and filling them in for the purpose of obtaining 9 As. |
| a private school has become one of the easiest | | | | Our students have become thoroughly lazy and |
| money-spinning ventures for retried political office | | | | standard of education in the country have fallen very |
| holders who charge unfeasible and unobtainable fees. | | | | drastically. Morality has also eroded our society |
| Examination malpractice begins in private secondary | | | | because the drift among parents now is that children |
| schools and ends on the desk of proprietors | | | | are forbidden from caning by teachers. Teachers are |
| proprietresses who in bids to convince and attract | | | | thus left powerful and made to become objects of |
| parent-customers organize frauds in the institution using | | | | molestations and derision by bully students who |
| teachers for reaching out to examination boards. | | | | capitalize on their hopelessness. These students only |
| There is therefore no doubt that a student gets hold of | | | | grow to become gangsters in what is infamously |
| examination papers days before such papers are | | | | known in the country's dictionary as "cultism". That |
| written. This has on many occasions developed to | | | | children should no longer be caned in private primary |
| sourness in teachers and proprietors/proprietresses | | | | and secondary institutions is now a new development |
| relationship. On different occasions, complaints are | | | | fast eroding discipline from the behaviours of children. It |
| received from true born-again teachers who | | | | is ironical that parents who were caned at schools |
| sometimes refuse to connive in this show of shame. | | | | now forbid their children from receiving same |
| That school owners are desperately determined to | | | | disciplinary measures in an African society. The role of |
| see that their students score above 100% in final | | | | the government towards monitoring private schools in |
| school exams through fraudulent means is a | | | | the country has not been quite effective if ever it must |
| necessary task for school owners. What they hope to | | | | be argued that it is in force. Government neglects this |
| achieve in this sad game is win more customers who | | | | bedrock sector of the economy and only complains on |
| look upon such schools as institutions where students | | | | the increase of armed robbery and other societal |
| never fail in examinations. More students definitely | | | | crimes. When private institutions are never monitored, |
| mean more money for the school owners. Worse still, | | | | when education is entirely left in the hands of private |
| teachers in such institutions are poorly paid to the | | | | greedy individuals with the aim of making money, the |
| extent that they have no option but live on parents. | | | | society is gradually being shaped towards a society full |
| School owners never want to contribute towards the | | | | of crimes. When government fails to check the |
| development of educational institutions or just how can | | | | qualifications of teachers or do not set up agencies to |
| one find justification on private schools that students | | | | entertain matters of complaints from the perceived |
| pay high school fees, with teachers lowly paid, still, | | | | private vanguards of education, when government |
| Parents Teachers Association are the architect of the | | | | feels tired listening to matters of educational interest, |
| running of such institutions. IN this case, the parents at | | | | such a government is muffling the human order and |
| all cost expect that their children pass WAEC and | | | | woes shall betide such a government and its people. |
| JAMB by every means. Nigerian parents are living in | | | | |