Lagos — Lagos State Government has
said no underage pupil would
henceforth be eligible for admission
into any public secondary schools in
the state without completing primary
six.
Meantime, a standing committee to
harmonise the school calendar,
curriculum and time- table for the
Basic Education Certificate
Examination (Junior Senior
Secondary JSS111) of public and
private schools in the state would be
set up soon.
The state Commissioner for
Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye,
who disclosed, weekend during a
stakeholders’ session with school
proprietors, affirmed that the era of
admitting underage children into
secondary schools in the state was
over.
Oladunjoye explained that the need to
align the school calendar, curriculum
and time- table of public schools with
that of private schools became
necessary in order to standardise the
process.
According to her: “Henceforth no
pupil will be eligible for admission
into any secondary schools in the
state without completing primary six;
the era of admitting underage pupils
into secondary schools in the state
has gone.”
She also advised parents and
guardians as a matter of fact to
converse in their native language with
their children and wards at home,
stressing, “it is by so doing that our
mother-tongue will not only be
promoted but would be spoken
effortlessly by the children.”
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/lagos-bars-age-students-public-schools/