No, This is not true


marenx the Writer



I live in Jos and I've never taught in government school til that day.

Here's what happened....

I'm a teacher of English and French and I was posted to teach French in government secondary school. I was given JSS Two for a start and the total number of students was 40. Most JSS Two students are supposed to be between 12 and 11 years old, but here the case is different: they were between 16 and 15.

As an experienced teacher with private secondary school, I assumed government secondary school students are the same as private secondary school students in terms of learning speed. But I was wrong.

Here the students weren't prepared to receive education.

When I asked them a simple question most pupils can answer correctly, to my surprise they couldn't answer it.

I thought they were joking so I asked them another question, simpler than the previous one, but guess what? they weren't joking and none of them could answer it.

So what's wrong?

I talked with their former French teacher (but I won't disclose anyone's name here) and what she told me hit my spine.

According to her, most of the students are nannies or those living with their uncles or aunties and due to so much chores given to them at home, they don't have much time to study. And worse than that, on several occasions, most of them aren't allowed in their class for not paying their tuition fee.

I haven't seated one on one with any of them, yet the picture is clear: they're abused and they're another category of less priveleged Nigerians looking for help.

Hey! These students--not only in the school I teach and not only in JSS Two but in all forms of most government secondary schools across Nigeria--need someone to pay their tuition fee on time, buy them books and give them extra lessons.

But as a volunteer spokesman of the less priveleged, after asking some questions, I noticed apart from Rotary Club International, only Rochas Okorocha Foundation is putting smile in the faces of some less priveleged Nigerian teenagers.

Indeed great Nigerians should visit those secondary schools to see it for themselves.

David Robert Jones OAL, known professionally as David Bowie, an English singer-songwriter and actor, said:

"And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through."

Thanks for the reading. Help the less priveleged students now.


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I teach, I write and I represent the less priveleged. marenjmafuyai@gmail.com 08182469977 (TEXT MESSAGE ONLY)

Their guardians are mostly the 'great Nigerians' you referred to. Another question to ask is: where are their biological parents?

janvier27:
Their guardians are mostly the 'great Nigerians' you referred to. Another question to ask is: where are their biological parents?

Thanks. I'll surely investigate. But maybe some lost their biological parents while some cannot be taken cared of by their biological parents. Some aren't even aware they need help. Let's join hands to spread the words.

"I'm a teacher of English and French and I was posted to teach French in government secondary school. I was given JSS Two for a start and the total number of students was 40. Most JSS Two students are supposed to be between 12 and 11 years old, but here the case is different: they were between 16 and 15." marenx the Writer