It's come to everyone's attention that recently, Nasir El Rufai has opted to fire what constitutes a major of the teachers in his state. As the governor of Kaduna, he was shocked to learn the average teacher in his state couldn't pass a primary school level exam. His solution? A mass sacking followed (presumably) by a mass hiring of new, more qualified teachers. This poses issues that can be organized into two distinguishable fields.

1. Kaduna scores remarkably low on all national examinations. Worst yet, it produces far too low a number of graduates to replenish the loss.
2. Kaduna is one of the most unstable, economically disenfranchised, volatile states in the country. Meaning that convincing enough people from all other parts of the country to fill the roles would be a nightmare.


At the end of all of this, the courts stepped in and stopped the action. Dubing it an egregious, irresponsible abuse of power that would leave teachers, students and schools is total disarray.


Peter Obi was also met with poor schools, though admittedly not at the level of Kaduna's. If Obi wanted to sack low scoring teachers, he could have, and could have regularly filled the vacancies as Anambra has the highest scores on national examinations and it, as well as the surrounding states (Imo, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Benue) produce higher than average amounts of graduates.


But even with his situation, he didn't opt for sacking. He instead privatized all of the government schools. In this act he acknowledged that the teachers aren't the ones failing, regardless of their scores, it's the government. The government that owns the schools serves as the head of the household. As the head of the household, the upkeep of the household is your responsibility. If there's a hole in the roof your children will look to you to fix it, because they expect what any citizen expects from it's government; responsibility.

Kaduna's actions showed that El Rufai hasn't accepted the responsibility of being a leader. When the teachers failed, he didn't hold himself, or his government accountable. Instead he assumed that it's only a coincidence that almost all of the teachers in his state can barely read or write. When you seen statistics that staggering, there's an is issue at the foundation. If everyone is under and umbrella and still getting wet, you don't change the people in the umbrella, you change the umbrella.



El Rufai is a failure, not the teachers. When it was his time to lead, he blamed. He punished people (teachers) for what he didn't provide them with (skills and resources). Today, Anambra continues to dominate academics in Nigeria, while Kaduna is still Kaduna

They should have left him to continue with his madness.


By the time he realizes that people from other parts of Nigeria are not ready to risk their lives being Teachers in the North, the education system of Kaduna would have collapsed.

Part of me thinks he wants lazily fill the void with youth corpers.

The north is good at execution but bad at planning. Youth Corpers aren't trained to teach. Yes they can read and write and are usually brilliant people, but the point remains. A teacher is a teacher. Having a youth corper teach is assuming anyone can teach and this is a lie. The corp situation has one big flaw

inconsistency.

A youth corper can't build experience as a teacher and students can't build experience with their teacher. May struggle to understand to language and customs of the students. Most don't build relationships with students and their parents. Most can only recite the lesson to you and test you and that's not teaching. So you'll get 10000 mediocre teachers that come and go. The teachers all over nigeria need help, but in every school you have teachers that go above and beyond for their students. Ones that believe in teaching as a craft and pride themselves in what they're doing. A youth corper is only thinking about how long they'll be in the hellhole called Kaduna before their deployment is over.


You'll get mediocre to poor teachers like all school in the zoo called Nigeria, but you'll fail to get the exceptional ones that admittedly all schools have, even if they're the minority.

There is nothing comparable about the educational system of both states. Privatising education in Kaduna is turning an entire state into another boko haram plantation. Let each state chose what works for them. A dullard as no education nor knowledge to impact simple.

I'm sure, u'll be shocked when d number n demographic of applicants are released.

U can't compare east and north... Is like asking desktop computer and typewriter machine which one is better

What is this one saying,bad and incompetence teachers is doing a lot of havoc and wrecking our educational system and output massively, even in Lagos state, in a school that I am a teacher, one new English teacher was recently employed by Lagos state govt who can't speak simple and correct English and such is teaching English in senior secondary school. The best thing to do is total painful overhauling of the educational sector

profolaolu:
What is this one saying,bad and incompetence teachers is doing a lot of havoc and wrecking our educational system and output massively, even in Lagos state, in a school that I am a teacher, one new English teacher was recently employed by Lagos state govt who can't speak simple and correct English and such is teaching English in senior secondary school. The best thing to do is total painful overhauling of the educational sector

Overhauling the educational sector isn't firing the teachers, it's overhauling the educational sector.

Are you providing training?
Are you providing support?
Are you providing resources?
Are you hiring on merit on not tribe or religion?
Are you working to attract the best talent?
Are you acknowledging the talent you have to encourage ?
What are the teachers incentives for performance?
Are they paid regularly?


If you have the best teacher in the world and they're coming to work hungry, they don't know how they're going to keep their own children in school with their wages, they live in a state among terrorists kidnappers and some of the worst political tension in Africa, They have no where to even grade papers, etc, you will have to sack that 'best teacher in the world' soon enough.

You say this as if the platform for performance is there. If there's a hole in your boat and it's filling with water, don't worry about the water, worry about the hole. What type of system do they have in Kaduna where none of the teachers can read and write? Is it a problem with the teachers or the system that makes and brings them?