aisha2:

I have two cousins in school and i know that if they write WAEC today they will fail, all they do is watch African Majic, i have advised scolded, cajoled, flogged, barred the channel but for where. Nad all their friends are like that. The parents are worse, my dad used to give us a bok a week to read and you pick out new words and tell him the story line, parents today re just doing ego contest on how much their childrens fees costs, they dont even know what the child is learning. I work with schools especailly public schools and beleive me most of the teachers go out of their way to help these children to learn but forwhere, Black Berry, Face book and African Majic is better than books

aisha2:

I have two cousins in school and i know that if they write WAEC today they will fail, all they do is watch African Majic, i have advised scolded, cajoled, flogged, barred the channel but for where. Nad all their friends are like that. The parents are worse, my dad used to give us a bok a week to read and you pick out new words and tell him the story line, parents today re just doing ego contest on how much their childrens fees costs, they dont even know what the child is learning. I work with schools especailly public schools and beleive me most of the teachers go out of their way to help these children to learn but forwhere, Black Berry, Face book and African Majic is better than books

asha 80:


I have noticed the bolded too.It is a case of my son or daughters private school is better than urs.

blackmann:

that's what today's generation has turned into. same thing happens here. even heard a kid here shot his parents cos he wasn't allowed to watch TV and was told to go study. Oh, and u forgot to add Food to that list.

aisha2:

Now i thank God for all those beating i recieved from my mom for watching "too much TV" when i go to sneak to watch TV before i finish my house work and home work, she will wait till am all cosy then Twah, blinded by a slap.
Kids now have their own Tv and tell their parents what they wanna watch, I was only allowed to to seseme Street, Kiddie Vision 101 and speak out. Now High school musical, Ben 10 and rubbish, no educational value none at all, just silly stuff.
Watching Voltron or superted was a reward for finishing my book on time

desgiezd:

Aisha, you would be making a terrible mistake if you begin to compare the quality of mothers we had in our time with the quality of mothers these days. Ours were mothers that would never spare the cane but today what you get is a bar of chocolate and a pat at the back for behaving badly. Our mothers were considered old fashioned for using the cane while today’s mothers, or should I say parents, are jet age parents who would go to their children’s schools and fight the school authority when a teacher flogs their children. Some would even threaten that they would ensure the particular teacher loses his or her job.
Only God knows what I would have become today had my mother not beaten the stubbornness and laziness out of my life and had my teachers spared the cane. A teacher that refuses to flog my child for behaving badly would not find it funny with me. Whatever the society says about human rights, I would never spare the cane in instilling discipline in my children.

asha 80:

98% of candidates fail as NECO releases Nov/Dec results
By Francis Falola, Minna, Published: Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010









The National Examinations Council has released the results of the November/December Senior School Certificate Examinations, with 98 per cent of the 234,682 failing to clinch five credits, including English and Mathematics.



But NECO stated that 4,223 candidates got five credits, including English and Mathematics.



The 4,223 candidates formed about 1.80 per cent of those that sat for the examinations, while Kogi, Bauchi and Ondo led others states in the list of examination malpractices.



The Registrar of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpalla, stated this in his address at the NECO national headquarters in Minna on Tuesday.



He added that 234,682 candidates wrote the examinations out of 245,157 that registered.



He said, “Today, NECO formally announces the results of the 2009 Nov/Dec SSCE which held in 1,708 centres spread across the country.



“Inasmuch as education remains a potent tool for attaining national goals, NECO will remain a veritable instrument for measuring educational attainment at the secondary school level, as standards will not be sacrificed for whatever reasons.”



He mentioned the total number of candidates with five credits and above irrespective of subjects as 12,197, representing about 5.2 per cent of those that sat for the examination.



Okpalla also said that 236,613 cases of examination malpractices were discovered in the examinations.



He said while Kogi topped the list of examination malpractices, the Federal Capital Territory, Abia and Oyo states were ranked lowest in infractions.



He regretted the poor performance of the candidates in the examination, saying that there was the need for stakeholders to intensify efforts in ensuring improvement in candidates’ performance.



Okpalla advised candidates that wrote the examination to visit NECO’s website with the same scratch card used in registering to access their results.


http://punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201003171191364

aisha2:


[b]Watching Voltron [/b]or [b]superted [/b]was a reward for finishing my book on time

PapaBrowne:

How can 98% fail?? That is an indictment on the teachers, not exactly on the students!
Its also probably an indictment on NECO itself. There is something just not right with the concept of a 98% failure. Things cannot just be that bad.

Don't private schools also write NECO?? There surely are a lot of very standard private schools in Nigeria with very capable kids.
I really don't believe this figure. Except  maybe I'm so out of touch with the reality of the comatose Nigerian education system.

Nostalgic memories!! I Couldn't get enough of Voltron & Superted!!