Attention!!!

About the new CRS removal for our Education Curriculum.

Please visit http://www.nerdc.org.ng/ecurriculum/CurriculumStructure.aspx

Now listen
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The Fed. Ministry of Education did not remove CRS from school curriculum. They only merged CRS and IRS with other subjects under Religious and National Values (RNV) and they (CRS and IRS) are to be taught separately in separate classes.

In my opinion, I think the Ministry of Education and NERDC should have done more to sensitize the public regarding these merging so as to drowse rising tension. Besides, Christianity based schools can still teach or talk about their faith.

If I were CAN and want to push a case, I would rather talk about the advantages Muslim students would have over their Christian counterpart now that they have this option. 'Cos the truth is 99% of Christian students will not go for Arabic while majority of their Muslim counterparts will opt for it.

More importantly we need to know that Arabic is not Islam but a language just as English and French. It is high time we started to encourage our students to take other languages apart from English.

---hear what a fellow Educator had to say on this development ---

I am a Christian, I attended Ansar Ud Deen College in Isolo, Lagos when it was still controlled by the government. I remembered when it was proposed that everyone should take Arabic language in school , majority of our Christian parents went against it because to them it means trying to islamise the Christian children. But I tell you, today that one of the wrong decisions I made is rejecting to learn that language. This is due to the fact that there are opportunities I would have gotten outside the country and to understand Arabic is required.

So sentiments apart, the world is becoming more global every day, the more languages you know how to speak and write the better for you. Let's be wise

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