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Being A Lecture Delivered By Alhazan Abiodun R. At The Federation of Iseyin Local Government Students, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife {FILGS OUA}, Education Summit 2017, Holding At The Aseyin Hall, on The 23rd September, 2017 Titled: Educational Recovery; Socio-Economic Challenges And Ways Forward PROTOCOLS: My age and academic qualifications may not be enough to stand me out to speak here on the state of our education, but pardon me if I say my voyage through life and experiences as student from primary to university level with added leverage as a public school teacher for nine years as well as my experience in the civil service of Oyo State are enough to make me say my bits on the title above. The Guardian of 3rd of November 2016 has this feature titled ‘Oyo Brewing Educational Crisis’ in which the writer condemned the action of some secondary students who razed school buildings at Oyo township over the State government’s ban on automatic promotion. The first time we would hear of such. Hear the writer; “The last five months have see the gradual rise of irate pupils in Oyo State public schools.... we witnessed last week’s razing of classroom blocks in seven public secondary schools by pupils who failed to gain promotion to the next class on account of a new vista to a troubling scenario that is playing out in the State’s education sector. ”In the recently released results of the 2016 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination {SSCE}, by the National Examination Council, Ekiti State students towered over their peers from other parts of the country as the analysis across the 36 States and Abuja concluded that the State topped all others, with 96.485 of its pupils that sat for the examination coming out victorious. “In the West African Senior School Certificate Examination {WASSCE} organized by the West African Examination Council {WAEC}, Ekiti State finished 11th out of the 36 States while Oyo State backed the race in the 26th position. “The drama series started when thousands of pupils from public secondary schools in the State poured into the streets of Ibadan, the State capital, protesting the State government’s plan to adopt a public-private participatory approach in the running of some of their schools.” The rest is today history as government eventually succeeded in going ahead with the policies and recent results from public examinations are showing indications of some improvements in performances of public school students as seen in the performance ranking of each local government in Oyo State for the year 2017. Iseyin led 32 other local government areas with 67.64%, followed by Ibadan South-West LG with 67.53% among others while Iwajowa came last with 10.28%. Back to the topic of discussion, some will demand we look at the operational words in Educational Recovery; Socio-Economic Challenges And Ways Forward after saying a bit about the rot in the sector so far. Educational Recovery: We can say this is a conscious attempt at salvaging the education sector which had gone comatose and is already having varying degrees of consequences on the society. Mind you, we cannot talk about recovery without going back to the problem that caused the poor condition that called for recovery. We shall look at the causes, consequences and effects of the educational degradation overtime. The problem started, not just from the students, parents and teachers, government as well as the entire society have their own positions in the dock as partakers in the crime against sustainable education. As a student at Iseyin District Grammar School, Iseyin, I can remember how discipline and parental monitoring contributed to good academic performance we had then because our teachers were like ‘tin-gods’ in the school. The fear of a teacher encapsulated the school arena; it extended to the town as no student would want to meet his or her teacher at the evening market. You were expected to be at home reading. During my foray into teaching between 2005 and 2014, I realized so many things have gone wrong with the school system within the time I left the secondary school, the time I went to the university and the period I started working. Fate brought me back to IDGS, Iseyin as English Language teacher and the first hurdle was the attitude of parents to their wards in the school- No textbooks, poor feeding from home, no monitoring of pupils’ activities at school. The three aspects that lead to academic success like content, delivery and manpower were suspect. Content was not a big deal as subject curriculum were fashioned to meet the needs of the day but delivery and manpower could not meet up because of inherent dislocation of what was expected and the reality of the time. It was a time that half-baked, hurriedly-chewed, unqualified students that were eased into colleges of education were being eased out and were taken in by shrewd, shylock-like private primary school owners and another set of calamity was unleashed on the society. As a new teacher that was poised to follow the curriculum to the letter, I became petrified when pupils coming from the primary schools were to be taught the English Language alphabets and formation of words. The question in my mind was ‘what impact was then made in the lives of these pupils in the last six years?’ Another problem I encountered by this particular time was the fact that most teachers were already disenchanted as the tone of discipline in public schools were already muted. They were singing ‘don’t cry more than the bereaved’ and I tried all my best to make them realize it was the society that was bereaved. Some teachers were no more disciplining students. They would rather pat their back after some beers at the nearest beer parlour, of course bought by the students for ‘appeasement’. Many of the students in my class were living with their grandmothers. They were either products of pregnancies denied by the young men in school or riding ‘Okada’ or the mother and father were at Lagos to ‘work’. Parents were physically attacking teachers for daring to discipline their wards at school while they paid to make those writing WAEC pass with the connivance of some teachers. Government was pussyfooting in enforcing policies that would have brought a halt to the leisure roll to decadence as witnessed in the students’ burning of school, attack on the person of the governor, beating of teachers, killing of an Ibadan principal and destruction of a school fence even at Iseyin. Teachers complained of stagnancy in promotion, irregular salary payment, lack of required teaching aids, poor teaching environment and the rest were also blames, lain at the step of government. We have gone through the recovery channels especially as they came from the present government which include the ban on automatic promotion, establishment of School Governing Board {SGB} which was majorly to bring back the community into running of schools, the Oyo State Model Education System Initiative {OyoMesi} which is an intervention initiative as well as renewed monitoring efforts from the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Oyo State government three years ago stopped the payment of WAEC fee of public school students while each public school pupil started paying a thousand naira per term so as to give sense of belonging back to parents and guardians which has also added to the new trend in students’ performance. Socio-Economic Challenges: The impact of the outcome of this loss of value in the education sector was sure to have effects and the effects are felt everywhere you turn. Those who had the chance of having Ivy-League education have positioned their own children to have same opportunity with whatever means. The children are today the one in the middle of reports of disturbing corruption cases. We heard of children of Nigerian millionaires enmeshed in fuel subsidy payment racket, they are the one in yahoo-yahoo and when they get government appointment, they swindle the whole country by using their international outreach to swindle government. For those without the opportunity above and unfortunately did not know that hard form of preparation for success was the way out, they settle for less as reflected in what led to recent flooding of our colleges of education with students that performed woefully during their WAEC/NECO examinations or those that were ‘helped’ during the exams and could not defend same in the university or polytechnic. The number of those seeking admission to colleges of education rose, as against the natural quest for students to pursue sciences, commercial, humanities and technology courses in universities, polytechnics and monotechnics. Those going to colleges of education rose in number because they believed it would be difficult to defend their result at the university and polytechnic. The colleges took them in and ease them out at the end of three years with little or no value added than that they left home for school. Graduates with certificates in education courses can only teach, unless for those with ingenious tendencies to be self-dependent by learning one skill or the other. Public schools are already saturated with teachers and the annual ritual of graduating students with no ready-made job market to go to made many of them make the claim that they have gotten certificate but no job. Nobody asked them the result they brought from school. Even if the job is there, who will employ somebody with a 3rd Class, a Pass and the other poor categories? The next phase for these set of people will be to go back to learning skill jobs like hair-dressing, tailoring, and trading while some opt for ‘Okada’ riding and other demeaning engagements. They would not be doing these if they had put in the best into their academic programmes from secondary school days. No graduate of medicine, nursing, engineering, even agricultural science will not be engaged in public or private jobs if they have required academic capability. The Okada riding-16year old boy has no parental control as his father and mother were never together from his childhood. He had a fling with a girl who also lives with her grandmother and would not be cowed into submission by a teacher. The result is unwanted pregnancy which will bring about the vicious cycle of the effect of societal failure to give education attached with moral value to the young ones. Before I left teaching profession in 2014, I did a rough sampling of students in the three public schools that I taught English Language and discovered that at every school, 45% of the students were not with their real fathers and mothers, but were living with one grandmother, uncle, aunt or any other relative who took the responsibility grudgingly because he or she would have biological children of theirs to cater for. Many were being fed at schools by teachers. I had to raise awareness within the community over the need to have compulsory first aid box in each public school as students were daily slumping at the assembly ground and in the class. Ways Forward: Oyo State government was recently celebrating improvement in performance rating of students in 2017 WAEC. I hope the development would ginger government to do more in the sector. The fact still remains that ‘Eleru ni a gbee nibi to wuwo’. I will not allow my own children to be exposed to the theatrics of societal inadequacies that will force the young ones to be at the rung of the ladder. Have you stopped to ask yourself why the sons and daughters of those at the top of the societal ladder are not in the public schools so they will also taste from the hemlock that our education has become overtime. I recommend that you as a person should vow that your own child will not be a victim of education mismanagement. Start by prepping them from their kindergarten level that discipline is a guide through life. If you apply self-discipline, you will not cheat in examinations and you will raise your voice if such is being practiced around you. Opportunities today are now in triangle form. The peak of it is the tiniest. Only the powerful, with the widest elbow can stay there. The bottom line is wide but at the top, not all are called. That is why for you to be somebody to reckon with in society through respectable means of livelihood, you have to start your struggle from the beginning. Work more than others. Strive more than those that have influential parents to pave ways for them. When others are working at their studies to just have result and be known to have graduated, you should work extra hard to have the best result so that when they want to employ, no matter the influence others can wield, you will be considered first. To our parents, we cannot plant rice and harvest cassava. Let our concentrations be on building children that will carry our names with dignity to the next generation by giving them good education laced with discipline. I have a medical doctor friend who now practices at South Africa. He was top of his class at University of Ilorin. His parents were not financially buoyant to see him through with his medical studies and the mother resorted to selling her old traditional clothes {Aso-Ofi} and other personal belongings for my friend to buy books. During internship immediately after his exit from Uni-Ilorin, my friend already built a house for his parents, sponsored his immediate younger sister to study nursing and set the mother up in business so she could buy back all the clothes she sold- and the best ones to replace for that matter. My friend’s parents knew nobody that could help influence work for him, he worked hard to be at the top of the class and got the support of his parents in prayer and little finances which were sustained with discipline from home. He later wrote the West African Medical examination for young graduates of medicine and he came second. The feat made him become somebody being sought after by all medical institutions in Nigeria and abroad before he settled for a popular health institution in South Africa. This example, among others shows how parents can go out of their conveniences to see their children achieve greater heights in life without indulging in shortcut to wealth which will eventually bring shame to them and the family name. Back to our government, it is apparent that policies and regulations on education have human face. Our leaders should remember that they had the rare opportunity of schooling during the Western Nigeria’s free education program with scholarship for those with zeal to study abroad. If the dictates of today’s economic reality would not allow them reciprocate same, they should give extant supports in the form of distribution of text books, sporting materials and teaching aids to make learning pleasurable. The current pace of development in the education sector in Oyo State needs support from all and sundry for government to do more towards reaping more benefits. Those in public offices can buy recommended text books and distribute to public schools’ libraries, organize free coaching classes, pay for scholarships of indigent but brilliant ones and support this kind of programmes to bring into fore, issues relating to youths and their development. Again, I will implore parents to please support their wards with moral, financial and spiritual encouragements and daily monitor their development, whether at school, home and wherever they are. The society, the constituency that will enjoy or suffer the consequence of education promotion or neglect has the most to do in coming together to appreciate every policy, programme or action of government, private bodies or individuals or condemn in absolute terms, the reverse of same. Thank you and God bless our students. Remember what Benjamin Disraeli said about youths. He said “the youths of a nation are the trustees of posterity.” Yio See se o!

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*FEDERATION OF ISEYIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDENTS, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE- IFE. FILGS OAU* INVITES ALL STUDENTS, TEACHERS, LECTURERS AND OTHER EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS TO HER EDUCATION SUMMIT 2017 *THEME: EDUCATIONAL RECOVERY IN OYO STATE* *CHAIRMAN OF THE SUMMIT: PROF. 'GBEMISOLA ADEOTI ( DEAN, FACULTY OF ARTS & HUMANITIES, O.A.U. ILE-IFE).* SUMMIT LECTURE TOPICS: 1. *EDUCATIONAL RECOVERY: SOCIO- ECONOMIC CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD.* SPEAKER: MR. ABIODUN AL-HASSAN (PRESS AGENT, BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF OYO STATE) 2. *EDUCATIONAL RECOVERY: THE DISTINCTIVE ROLES OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS* SPEAKER: MR. AYELAAGBE (PROPRIETOR, GREATER LOVE MODEL COLLEGE, ISEYIN) SUMMIT DISCUSSION TOPIC: *THE ROLES OF STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL RECOVERY IN OYO STATE.* DISCUSSANT: THE HIGH TABLE. VENUE: ASEYIN HALL, ASEYIN PALACE, ISEYIN, OYO STATE. DATE: 23 OF SEPTEMBER 2017 (SATURDAY). TIME: 10:00AM *REFRESHMENTS, MUSIC, PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER SIDE ATTRACTIONS ABOUND.* Your presence will be highly appreciated. ANNOUNCER: PLANNING COMMITTEE. RSVP: OLALEKAN OLATUNBOSUN CHAIRMAN, PLANNING COMMITEE. 07066679848 OLAOKE PETER GEN. SEC. FILGS OAU 08105649481 *AKINDELE KAYODE I.* PRESIDENT FILGS OAU 08165707772

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