Mayour11:

Bro, u made a point, but next time don't be specific, this is a social platform and anything you post here can be assessed anywhere in the world.

onihaxy:
Abike had three potential boyfriends/ suitors well known by her mother, the first is a medical student in final year, the second guy is a student engineer while the third is a school teacher with 5years experience. Along the line, Abike got pregnant and the mother got to know about it. She was compelled to tell who owns the pregnancy. The mother was shocked to death when abike told her that the pregnancy belongs to the school teacher.
"School what!!!!!!!"
"With 13,000 monthly salary!!!!"
"That wretched boy!!!!!"
"You must be stupid!!!"
"Chaiii, this teacher had charmed my daughter ooooooooo, !!!".
Mama abike yelled at abike. Abike replied "mama, why now?, I was expecting you to be happy that he is a working class compared with the rest".
"You dey craze??"
"What does a teacher have to offer?"
" I still prefer the student doctor or engineer"
"Don't you know how much they will earn when they graduate?"
"Their 6 months salary will be more than the entire 5years salary of that miserable teacher".
"We must abort this pregnancy".
point one, potential mother inlaws and the society at large looked down on teachers .

Back in university days, I actually wanted to study chemistry. But because I didn't know any oga at the top, neither do I have anybody to help me with my admission, I was given chemistry education instead of chemistry major. I was happy that at least, I was an undergraduate. But along the line, I found out that 95% of the entire student of faculty of education didn't fill education as their favourite course except for few who came in through direct entry from colleges of educations. Everyone was there by one accident or the other. Mostly because they couldn't meet up with cut-off marks of their desired courses. And offcourse, faculty of education has the lowest cutoff mark in my school.
point two, the school authority decided to ridiculed teaching courses by pushing people with low intellect into it and making its cut-off mark so ridiculous

In my 100level and 200level days, I discovered that most students are ashamed to tell people outside that they were studying education at the university. Infact, most parents didn't know that their wards are into education courses. People who studied chemistry edu would claim to study pure chemistry, people who studied accounting edu would claimed that they were accountants instead of EDUCATORS. Even during teaching practise, students will always lie that they are doing Industrial training.
point three, the education students themselves are feeling inferior while in school

After my university days before I went for NYSC, I decided to apply for a teaching job in order to occupy myself. I was shocked when private schools owners were saying they would pay me 10,000naira. I was annoyed and angry with myself. I was like "will banks, engineering company, even common pure water company pay 10,000 to degree holders?" And in this same school, each students pays 30,000naira as school fees ooooo. How do I plan a life, get married and raise children with 10,000monthly salary even if I decided to see it as a career?
point four, private schools owners are stingy and not ready to pay good salary

Ok, I cajoled the school owner and decided to negotiate better with him. I begged him to increase the pay to 20,000naira. He yelled at me "what, 20k?, I will share that amount among 5 corpers monthly and they would be willing to work hard. So why should I pay you 20k when I would share the same amount among 5 people?, see ogbeni, every 3 months, governments sends many corpers here, check the staff room, you would see like 6 corpers sitting there. So if you can't take the 10,000 monthly, you can go away. I left the school with bitterness.
point five, federal government has ridiculed teaching profession by throwing 99% of mobilised corpers to schools, even those that didn't study education as a course and offcourse, graduate applicants are treated like a shit.
I was having a gist with a lawyer friend sometimes ago and the issue of teacher and other profession came up. He told me that "onihaxy, do you know why teaching profession will forever remain in low recognition and low societal respect?, no matter how good you are as an activist, no matter how outspoken you are, you can never stand in a law court as a lawyer if you don't study law and pass out from law school. Same thing with doctors, if you don't go through medical school, you can never get the licence to practice as a doctor even if you learn the skills from the best hospital in the world. Same with engineering. Julius berger can never employ you to work for him as an engineer if you studied mass communication. But in teaching field, you would see people from various facet of life applying and getting employed as a teacher. So tell me, how do you expect such field to be seriously recognised and respected?. I was dumb-folded.
point six, teaching service is filled with people who mostly doesn't study education related courses.

I have a teacher friend who is always in the habit of grumbling always. He is getting a good pay of 30,000 from his school+various lessons job. But he would still grumbled of not satisfied. I told him point blank. "Ogbeni, why not quit this job if you know that you aren't satisfied with it". He replied " do you think I'm happy teaching?, I'm just using it to keep myself busy until I get my dream job".
point seven, teaching profession is filled with people who are frustrated because they had lost their hopes in getting their dreamed job and consoling themselves with the teaching job.
Another thing I noticed is the rate at which mushroom schools are spreading around in my area. I have seen a whole primary one to primary six using a 2 bedroom flat building, I have seen a whole jss1 to sss3 of a school using a 3bedroom flat building. Then no doubt, the teachers in such schools would remain poor till jesus come. What is wrong with the educational sector setting standards for school establishments?,
point eight, mushroom schools, another major problem of making teachers a poverty description entity.

Over to you nairalanders, what do you think is the best way to revitalise teaching profession and career to make it stand among its medical, engineering and banking sector?. Even common agricultural sector is now getting more respect than the teaching profession.

Kachisbarbie:

very fat lie...I taught in a govt school as a corp member. you say they have up to 10arms? That's if the subject is general, what of electives?
I thought acctng...we had 3 accounting arms for each level (ss1-3). My dear, I lost count of how many acct teachers, of which I didn't even know them till the day Ministry of Education came - I was surprised to see over 10teachers telling me and my fellow corp member that we suppose to be reporting to them. These are people we have never seen. They don't even set tough questions - I remember setting my exam questions and the principal asked me if I'm sure they can answer this one
-I can remember being told to approximate 35 to 40 so the student can @least get an E
-I can remember seeing so any exotic cars by 7:45 to sign attendance - by 9am...you can count the no of cars/teachers that would be remaining.

In govt schools the student don't even come to school, they don't even like to take their test...
So where would you even see the 700 scripts to mark?
Is it the script that you can mark in 30secs? Because they wouldn't write anything sensible

In a govt school, you may just have to teach twice in a week(a particular arm/class). The students don't even challenge you, so it's easy for you to enter the class and freestyle. You can't compare it to teaching private students - that keep asking you both the one that is their business and the one that isn't

By the way private school pass private sch...my secondary sch had 12arms of each class from Jss1 - Ss3 (it was a private sch). Not all private schools are densely populated

I'm not saying all govt. schools are bad - but majority of them are lazy! They don't do anything!

MsNas:

That's not also entirely true. I went to a government school, albeit missionary. So, it was still sane in there. My JS1 - SS 3 had at least 8 arms.

Who told you teachers in government schools don't teach anything? Just because you went private schools or you taught at a substandard government secondary school doesn't mean all private schools are good and all secondary are bad. You can't base your conclusions on a a single story. I went to St. Louis, Ibadan and people that know it's pedigree despite being a government school can testify.

On the flip side, my younger sisters went to various private schools in Ibadan. And while they are not cheap (not one bit) , the teachers weren't paid in proportion to the fees that was being charged the pupils. They also didn't have much to do. At most, each level of class had three arms. So sample other scenarios and opinions next time.

Kachisbarbie:


Read my concluding paragraph once again Ma'am. I never said ALL.

Thanks.

MsNas:

You never said all, but you said majority. Majority means a bulk of it. And I'm pretty sure you never taught in more than one of them. That was what I was addressing. Thanks

cecegorz:
I ran into my very good friend yesterday, and I nearly wept.
This is someone we served together close to ten years ago, came back to Lagos and started hustling for jobs together, he eventually ended up a teacher in a private school.
Believe me, he was looking lean and much older than our mates, narrated a bit of his struggles to me and I just wished I had a magic wand to do something instantly.
What beats me is how these private schools charge so much, and yet pay the teachers peanuts!
Today's teachers are so badly paid, may be that's why their students can't learn enough to pass common WAEC exams.

ezelous:
The bitter and unknown truth is that most graduates of educational courses cannot impact like their non-educational counterparts. I am a living testimony. God will surely punish those who take up the job just to pass time.

NifemiOlu:



Most or some? Those who can't teach effectively are those failures and dropouts of other faculties who have been dumped into education faculties in various universities.
Those who actually applied for education courses and got the right training, you can't stand them. Another problem is during admission, most schools move students to education faculty...that is why we have terrible teachers all over the place.

seunkeji5:
wat course can one take at masters level to qualify as an educator as i did not study educatin. I study bus admin

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]OP, your English it terrible.
Please, read your post again and make the necessary corrections.[/size]

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]OP, your English it terrible.
Please, read your post again and make the necessary corrections.[/size]

Chuksemi:
The Only Solution To This Is If Parents Become More Concerned With Their Children's Education. International Schools Pay Very Well. I Know One In PortHarcourt That Pays Up To 120,000 As A Starting Salary. If Parents Take Education Seriously, Nobody Would Send Their Children To Petty Schools. They Don't Learn Very Well In Petty Schools And The Work Force Consists Of unqualified Persons. International Schools With Standard Facilities Employ Qualified People And Charge Higher, Yet They Pay Teachers Very Well And The Kids Learn Very Well In Such Schools. Petty Schools Should Be Eradicated. Only Then Would Teachers Get Good Take Home Pay.