₦airaland Forum

7upnigeria:
■ I don't think private school in Nigeria allows their teachers to form ANY UNION.

Allotrope69:
As a teacher in this particular sch, I and my colleagues have been completely dissatisfied with some of the school's anti-worker policies.

There's no decision or policy that favors the teachers. We are always at the receiving end of every decision.
For instance, as a form Teacher and also a teacher of Mathematics, I must ensure that my students eat their foods(Lunch). I must monitor them closely to make sure they don't take their foods home. They must finish their food.
If any student absents himself/herself, I must call the parents to check. Failure to do so would be akin and tantamount to insensitivity and lack of care for my students. These are JSS3 students we are talking about. But if the teacher is absent due to one reason or the other, same parents would not bother to check on the teacher even if they are aware.

Here's the most annoying part for me. I have a student. A new student who just came in in September. The child hasn't been doing well. The parents came on Open Day and met with me, we discussed on the way forward and how we can help the child to do better. This is a student who cares less about studies, so it is almost difficult to help him. Today we concluded our second Continuous Assessment Test and almost every teacher whose subjects had been written have all marked their scripts. I told this particular student to go round the teachers and get the scores of all His subjects for me. They offer 18 subjects. But to my surprise, the proprietoriess told me to go round the teachers and get his scores. She said so in the presence of this child. This is a woman that knows how busy I am as a Maths teacher, I barely even sit in my class cos I am always up and doing. What's wrong in a child carrying out this simple task?

Some supervisors came from the Ministry of Education a few weeks ago, and they noticed that we over pamper the children. They told us that they hope we have a university for them, because the way we are pampering them, if they go to higher institutions with such lackadaisical & nonchalant attitude, they will fail. So it's either we reduce the way we do it or we build a university for them to continue the pampering. It's not like the sch is a big sch where parents pay heavy sums as sch fees. Fee is 40k per term.

As a teacher, if a student fails to do your assignment, and u discipline that child, the proprietoriess will blame u. And if u don't discipline that child to Correct him/her, and same proprietoriess finds out that the students didn't do your assignment, she will public scold you. Shout at an erring student, it's a problem. Flog the child, it's a problem. Talk to the child, it's a problem. They will find a way of misconstruing your words to suit their narratives. A student can insult u and u won't do anything. If u do, they will label u as wicked. They will ask u why u can't see the child as just a child and overlook things. It's really frustrating.
You can imagine catching a JSS 2 student doing test and exam malpractice, if u deduct the child's score, it's a problem. If u flog, it's a Problem. I once deducted a child's score when I caught him him cheating in an exam. I mean, this boy had the impetus, guts and audacity to open his Maths notebook and be copying directly to his exams script. I used my red pen to deduct just 10marks, and in the end, I was told not to deduct any score. It was said right in the presence of this same student, and other students present there. I was weak. Very weak.

Some parents also try to bully teachers cos they are backed up by the school owners. After all, a customer is always right. If a Parent contracts u to have a private lesson for their child, and such parent refuses to pay you at the time they should pay, and u dare ask for your money, u could be in hot soup. The parent might call the school owners to report that you're harassing them and you will get the blame. In fact, the school owners tell u what to charge them.

The proprietor of the sch is who understands all these, but his wife is different. His wife is so sentimental, biased and emotional and unfair when judging cases. There are three staff there who can never be wrong in her eyes. Three days into my assumption of duty there, I was told about this by some old staff, but I doubted until I found out that what I heard was actually the truth. I believe a Boss should carry everyone along and not love some and despise others. She goes as far as gossipping about her staff with other staff(her right-hand staff).

How can a Proprietoress who was once a teacher in someone's sch boldly tell her staff that their Future end here in her sch, and that the students are now the future. And that the children will be more successful than the teachers? . It tells a lot as to how she sees and perceives her employees and reason she mistreats her staff. She has placed a limit on us that we can't go beyond where we are.

See, I love teaching and God knows. I'm so passionate about this profession despite the fact that it is almost not a lucrative job. I have taught in Nine(9) private schools, in four(4) different states of this country so I'm well experienced by God's grace. But this sch is something else. The only good thing is that they don't owe salaries. Never.

Allotrope69:
@ Allotrope69 Do you have a computer and good internet access?
I would like to engage your services for my children's private mathematics lesson- danielbig410@gmail.com

YoungBlackRico:
Wether private or public, leave teaching job. Especially if you're a young adult just starting life.

Bigdan411:
@ Allotrope69 Do you have a computer and good internet access?
I would like to engage your services for my children's private mathematics lesson- danielbig410@gmail.com

Kobojunkie:
Do you know what you just taught the child you felt you were correcting? It is that if he was in position of power over the other, it becomes OK to use violence against/abuse the other child.

Look at Nigeria today..Oga/madam dey slap gateman, driver, employee...Politicians dey slap and belittle ordinary citizens...husbands dey beat their wives..wives dey torture house helps...Police dey beat, torture and even shoot people wey dem no like...😩

Everyone is has literally made it their place to take out their angst against others in a violent way. Teachers, una do well as una handiwork dey everywhere.🙄

Trophy12:
■ u still never understand me , I said two students where fighting amd i flogged them . Can't I tell correct again and discourage them from fighting?
■ Haba so I should just pamper them .
■ This is Africa no America . U no how many times then flog me for school back then. Besides I just gave the kid a single stroke of cane not two.

Kobojunkie:
They do not allow in what way? Are teachers made to sign agreements that they wouldn't join unions while in their employment?

thatigboman:
I think it means Private Practice

sprints1:
by the way where the jobs the useless #50-300k jobs in Nigeria that can barely feed you same goes for abroad their is better cuz you wont owe and at the same time you wont grow they don't need it the best form of learning is student-centered certificates are for validation to seek approval by the government. I learnt most of tye things I know myself when I was in school I was using three separates textbooks for physics and Biology. I used nelson and parker, Abbot, PN Okeke. I learnt some stuffs myself when I got to SS2 my physics teacher left and the school brought in an incompetent HND teacher who had not idea of what she is teaching. Break free we do not need the government to survive. A child can learn on their own.

mikkyangel3:
Google is your friend

Kobojunkie:
In most countries today, a dropout, for instance, can study at home, take the major exam, and get his certificate mailed to him without having to go through any school. Many of the common exams the world over do not require you to register through a school... SAT, TOEFL, GRE, CLT, etc.

illicit:
Let the mother flog her

It's not my job to beat people

Beat ur child at home, don't give me your rotten kids, I don't beat people

Great0ne1:
Yes, you have a point. Is mainly the job of the parents to beat there kids when they misbehave

Love800:
Okay.
You talked about the dropout who studied at home and proceeded to write the exam. If he did not enroll, can he take the exam?

So you will not register for SAT, TOEFL, GRE, before taking their exams?

Kobojunkie:
In most countries today, a dropout, for instance, can study at home, take the major exam, and get his certificate mailed to him without having to go through any school. Many of the common exams the world over do not require you to register through a school... SAT, TOEFL, GRE, CLT, etc.

Kobojunkie:
🤔

Love800:
Am talking about the fundamental schools(primary and secondary), and not SAT etc.

If you did not register your child in a school, how will he get his o'level and ssce certificates?

Kobojunkie:
For that you would need to contact the board in charge of that exam for details. The exam is there to verify that one meets the necessary intelligence level for consideration for high school graduation and not that one attended a particular school so I would think that that too would not require a student to register through a school.(In a country with the World's highest out-of-school children count, this ought to be a no brainer but sadly this is Nigeria we are talking after all ) Anyways, you would need to contact the agency that administers SSCE to verify those details.

Love800:
I did not understand dis ur post.

I asked you a simple question. How will the child get his primary and secondary school certificate if he is taught at home?

sprints1:
you are still blinded by the system if you are keen on the certicificate child should be enrolled into jelosimi school. I have seen kids pay another school and the child writes exam and gets degree. Primary certificate is useless

Kobojunkie:
The problem here is you folks don't answer questions when asked and you fail when asked to reason things critically....

► Stealing is a legal offense. So, tell us, who is legally required to handle such a situation and dole out punishment in that case?
► Yet another legal offense! So, tell us, who is legally required to handle such a situation and dole out punishment in that case?
► Yet another legal offense! So, tell us, who is legally required to handle such a situation and dole out punishment in that case?

Legal offenses such as the ones listed above are NOT for the school to handle. Your principal, by law, does not have the right to take it upon himself to handle the third case at all. He can attempt to handle the first ONLY IF his parents have permitted him to do so. Otherwise, he could be charged to court by the parents and that would not bode well for him or his school. As for the second and third cases, the school is required by law to inform the parents and get the authorities involved as the law is clear on the above crimes.

4. Now you are just talking jargon at this point! The Law in Nigeria is pretty clear on what must take place in any of the cases you noted above. But you seem to disagree with the law here suggesting instead that somehow your teachers should take the law into their own hands to prosecute the cases without the guardian being notified before what has taken place. And we wonder why many Nigerians don't know or follow their law nor know their left from their right as far as the law of the land is concerned.

mechanics:
Just keep on enduring, you will have your own school by God's grace.

Love800:
What is PP?

Kobojunkie:
Technically, the child should not be the one collecting his own record from each of the teachers. So you teachers along with your proprietor should come up with a more efficient and effective way of sharing records without having the kids do it for themselves.

Allotrope69:
As a teacher in this particular sch, I and my colleagues have been completely dissatisfied with some of the school's anti-worker policies.

There's no decision or policy that favors the teachers. We are always at the receiving end of every decision.
For instance, as a form Teacher and also a teacher of Mathematics, I must ensure that my students eat their foods(Lunch). I must monitor them closely to make sure they don't take their foods home. They must finish their food.
If any student absents himself/herself, I must call the parents to check. Failure to do so would be akin and tantamount to insensitivity and lack of care for my students. These are JSS3 students we are talking about. But if the teacher is absent due to one reason or the other, same parents would not bother to check on the teacher even if they are aware.

Here's the most annoying part for me. I have a student. A new student who just came in in September. The child hasn't been doing well. The parents came on Open Day and met with me, we discussed on the way forward and how we can help the child to do better. This is a student who cares less about studies, so it is almost difficult to help him. Today we concluded our second Continuous Assessment Test and almost every teacher whose subjects had been written have all marked their scripts. I told this particular student to go round the teachers and get the scores of all His subjects for me. They offer 18 subjects. But to my surprise, the proprietoriess told me to go round the teachers and get his scores. She said so in the presence of this child. This is a woman that knows how busy I am as a Maths teacher, I barely even sit in my class cos I am always up and doing. What's wrong in a child carrying out this simple task?

Some supervisors came from the Ministry of Education a few weeks ago, and they noticed that we over pamper the children. They told us that they hope we have a university for them, because the way we are pampering them, if they go to higher institutions with such lackadaisical & nonchalant attitude, they will fail. So it's either we reduce the way we do it or we build a university for them to continue the pampering. It's not like the sch is a big sch where parents pay heavy sums as sch fees. Fee is 40k per term.

As a teacher, if a student fails to do your assignment, and u discipline that child, the proprietoriess will blame u. And if u don't discipline that child to Correct him/her, and same proprietoriess finds out that the students didn't do your assignment, she will public scold you. Shout at an erring student, it's a problem. Flog the child, it's a problem. Talk to the child, it's a problem. They will find a way of misconstruing your words to suit their narratives. A student can insult u and u won't do anything. If u do, they will label u as wicked. They will ask u why u can't see the child as just a child and overlook things. It's really frustrating.
You can imagine catching a JSS 2 student doing test and exam malpractice, if u deduct the child's score, it's a problem. If u flog, it's a Problem. I once deducted a child's score when I caught him him cheating in an exam. I mean, this boy had the impetus, guts and audacity to open his Maths notebook and be copying directly to his exams script. I used my red pen to deduct just 10marks, and in the end, I was told not to deduct any score. It was said right in the presence of this same student, and other students present there. I was weak. Very weak.

Some parents also try to bully teachers cos they are backed up by the school owners. After all, a customer is always right. If a Parent contracts u to have a private lesson for their child, and such parent refuses to pay you at the time they should pay, and u dare ask for your money, u could be in hot soup. The parent might call the school owners to report that you're harassing them and you will get the blame. In fact, the school owners tell u what to charge them.

The proprietor of the sch is who understands all these, but his wife is different. His wife is so sentimental, biased and emotional and unfair when judging cases. There are three staff there who can never be wrong in her eyes. Three days into my assumption of duty there, I was told about this by some old staff, but I doubted until I found out that what I heard was actually the truth. I believe a Boss should carry everyone along and not love some and despise others. She goes as far as gossipping about her staff with other staff(her right-hand staff).

How can a Proprietoress who was once a teacher in someone's sch boldly tell her staff that their Future end here in her sch, and that the students are now the future. And that the children will be more successful than the teachers? . It tells a lot as to how she sees and perceives her employees and reason she mistreats her staff. She has placed a limit on us that we can't go beyond where we are.

See, I love teaching and God knows. I'm so passionate about this profession despite the fact that it is almost not a lucrative job. I have taught in Nine(9) private schools, in four(4) different states of this country so I'm well experienced by God's grace. But this sch is something else. The only good thing is that they don't owe salaries. Never.

Nicoddemus:
Did I hear you said you have taught in nine schools with a poor salary?
youre just a mediocre, with low self exteem and mental laziness. watch it else youll die poor.

I dont think you love teaching more than i do. the day i went for teaching interview after my graduation I thought from physics to chemistry into biology with its relationship to mathematics that the owner of the school had to suspend protocols. He gave me automatic employment there and then with salary higher than the oldest teacher.

but when I started and saw the realities about teaching inspite of the privileges i enjoyed i resigned after just one term. the school nearly ran mad but it did not deter me.

I rolled up my sleeve and started hustling. the first week i stared my own little business i made my whole salary in a month
today i can pay all those teachers salary with my one man business

writeprof:
Private Practice= Becoming a private teacher to students. IF God helps you, it will be a BYE BYE to full time job.

Love800:
I seriously dont understand your write-up. Is it that you find it difficult to construct words well? Am not mocking you. But i find it crazy to relate to your voice. Because of this, i can't give you a response.
Thanks.

Allotrope69:
Amen. Thanks