Amidst dismal showings by students who sat for last WASSCE, as expected private secondary schools have taken vintage positions of national newspapers to celebrate another record breaking and outstanding performance in their WASCE & UTME Results! A particular instance is a centre-spread ad by an Ogun State based school. Least I could see was 3 distinctions. As many as 60% of the students had 8 distinctions and above. To these private schools, this is celebration time. Performance in exams such as this has become a marketing tool. I believe this ad was placed to convince we parents of the need to send our children to such schools. However, there seems to be little correlation between these superlative performances and that of JAMB and even university degree when these students enventually got admitted . There is something wrong with these record breaking and outstanding performance, and it needs to be investigated. It is well known of the antics of school proprietors to go extra but corrupt laden steps to BUY results. I am most worried of the future of our children and our nation!
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:56:34 +0000
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