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7 MAJOR REASONS THAT AFFECTS THE DECISIONS OF NIGERIAN PARENTS IN THEIR CHOICE OF SCHOOLS FOR THEIR CHILDREN

Parents make different decisions on the choice of school their children will attend at the beginning of each session. The choices from observations boils down to a lot of factors which I will like to carefully analyse.

1. Academic performance:
If the children's academic performance is poor or below the expectations of the parents, the chances of changing the school of their ward is very high.

2. The educational system:
A school that has unqualified or poorly trained teaching staff will definitely birth poor academic products. Hence, most parents will want to look for a better alternative.

3. Low tuition fees:
Parents with low income will most likely look the way of schools with very low school fees not minding the quality of education churned out by these schools.

4. School facilities and learning environment:
These is one of the major deciding factor for most average income parents. Most Nigerian parents fall easily for schools with beautiful looking structures, laboratories and friendly learning environment not minding the cost. And most schools that has the financial wherewithal will go all the way out to ensure they lack none of these or much more.

5. TRANSPORTATION FACILITY:
Most parents that are either too busy with job at the office, or those that usually comes back late, also parents who usually prefer their children transported safely to school and back home would make their choice based on these.


6. PROXIMITY TO THEIR HOME:
Some parents detest the idea of their ward attending school that is far away from home. They prefer a school that's within the environment they reside. The reasons for this decision varies from one parent to the other.

7. PREFERENCE FOR BOARDING SCHOOL:
This type of learning is as old as the idea of school in itself. The rich and average income parents favour this category of academic learning. Its a general belief amongst parents that is favourable disposed to this idea that pupils in boarding schools are thoroughly bred in the academic curriculum or learning since they spend all their time within the school learning environment.

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