PARENTS, under the umbrella of Parents Teachers Progressive Forum, PTPF, have appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to reconsider its position on the on-going strike in the interest of the Nigerian students, the education sector and the nation at large.
Chairman of PTPF, Abuja branch, Mr. Ejike Amu-Nnadi, who made the appeal at the graduation and prize giving day of First Age Private Schools, Kubwa, Abuja, stated that though there was dearth of learning facilities, conducive learning environment for teachers and poor funding of the education sector; perpetual strikes should not be the only option available to attract the needed attention from the Federal Government.
Amu-Nnadi said in view of the parlous state of the nation’s education sector, ASUU should not make things worse with a prolonged and avoidable strike.
He said: “The persistent failure of the public school system in Nigeria has made the private schools the only option available for Nigerian parents.
“Government should do everything possible to bring the nation’s education sector to the desired and expected standard.
“The situation is so bad that parents are presently at the mercy of private school owners.”
Director of Schools, First Age Private Schools, Mrs. Adeleke Zaynab said all hands must be on deck for the education system in the country to attain the expected international standard.
Adeleke said: “For us to meet international standards, our schools must constantly be positioned to meet the ever evolving new academic ideas, new ICT and capacity building and trainings to ensure that the graduates we churn out are confident, independent and adaptive in any environment they find themselves.”
She said the guiding principle of the school was in the words of Daniel Webster which stated, “If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work on immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the fear of God and love of their fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, but which will brighten all eternity.”
Source: Vanguard
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