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2mch:
Which low IQ class? That’s his class. He’s only in JSS3 because you rushed him and probably made him do common entrance in primary 4. No de deceive yourself. Kids are to learn at a normal pace not rushed and then the parents claim genius.

Some even bribe the primary school for double promotion. All those kids that were rushed, what has their genius contributed to Nigeria? At the end are they better off than their peers who attended school at the right age? I look around me and the answer is NO. They were obviously not geniuses but rushed by parents.

U even get time engaging that person.homestly I don't know wat they stand to gain with all the rush at the end the child come to become a normal recluse of the society....go to school today u will see 12 yrs or 13 yrs in ss1 giving teachers headache due to lack of basic attitudinal modification entrenched in age requirement.

nairalanda1:
Well i know some people who graduated from secondary school at the age of 21 and still finished university with first class degrees.

Age ain't nothing but a number

..then,the labour market now limits them with age barrier except they become entrepreneurs immediately or start off as teachers ..

NJV:
Why does the govt always go back and forth on this issue. I thought of recent, 16yrs was approved as minimum for university admission? So how's that possible with 12 being minimum for jss1?

They are clueless with no direction.
I met a very young boy of 14 years and undergraduate studying Computer Science at Lead University, Ibadan, in 2024.
That boy is a genius. This kind of useless policies by this govt would have messed up his life but thank God his parents sent him to a private university

It makes a lot of sense.

2mch:
Good. Some people rush little kids to secondary school so they can be kept in boarding house. Then the parents can go and come free. If you know you are not ready to devote those first 12yrs to your kid, making them a whole human before secondary school. Don’t have kids. They also need to ban double promotion and initiate gifted classes. So all the brilliant students can still maintain their grade but learn more advanced subjects.

I look around and some of my classmates are 2-3yrs younger than me. Hooow! It’s pure negligence and abuse on the parents part. It will also go a long way to reducing cultism. By the time they enter University and they are 18, a more mature mind. They are less likely to be influenced by cult and other unnecessary vices, even pervert teachers will be more careful with mature students.

Unemployment is a leveler of all at the end.

Confused sets of people….. 12 yrs jss1 nd 16 yrs for university…. Normal dts 4 yrs wat abt nysc nd job experience….

MadamExcellency:
My youngest son is coding and going into formal phone and computer repairs, as that has been his fantasy, but he is 12 years old and in JSS3. You can't reduce him to a low IQ class.

you think that's what IQ is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you have a lot of learning to do. Now here's your home work, go and learn the differences between being intelligent and being a genius.

brainhgeek:
Permit me to enter this discussion.
Should a 17-year-old student in JSS3 be promoted to SS2 if their intellectual abilities warrant staying in JSS3 despite the age-based class structure? Why do we make students repeat classes and associate with younger peers? Shouldn't we prioritize individual development over rigid age-based policies, allowing gifted students to progress at their own pace, even if it means skipping a class or being with older students? Doesn't this approach risk stifling exceptional talents and undermining the potential of students who don't fit the traditional age-grade mold?
Looks like the government is placing priority on age and not intellectual abilities.

There’s a difference between age of acceptance in an institution due to maturity. There is also a difference in not studying hard enough or having intellectual disabilities which make it hard for certain students to become successful in formal education. If you did not prepare well for JAMB and you fail, do you get admission into Uni? Don’t you have to repeat it and take it with younger students? The same way, if you fail in school, you do not get promoted to the next class until you have fulfilled the requirements to pass.

These kids being rushed did not even bother to enter primary 5 or even 6. Most write common entrance in primary 4. After being rushed and heavily coached by their parents to pass the exam. So they can pass off parenting to some teachers in a boarding house.

Abroad, if you don’t turn 5 by August 31st, you wait till the next year to enter primary school. So, kids are entering the equivalent of secondary school between 12-13yrs. They have observed that kids, no matter their genius are emotionally, socially and mentallly prepared for secondary school at that age. At 18, they are adult and only adult should be in University for several very important reasons. If I was an employer and you apply, say you are 19yrs, I will never employ you. Kids abroad graduate University from 22yrs and up and they do very very well. With many of them being geniuses.

I have relatives who were identified as gifted abroad. They do not skip class but are made to graduate with their mates. The only thing is they are allowed to take more advanced classes based on some subjects their teacher has identified they are good at. But time is taken to ensure they develop their special abilities with their mates. They all graduate together at 18.

That means my daughter will sit at home for 3 more years. What a retrogressive law. While others are supporting kids achieving at younger ages Nigeria holds theirs back.

nairalanda1:
Well i know some people who graduated from secondary school at the age of 21 and still finished university with first class degrees.

Age ain't nothing but a number

So if it is nothing but a number, why pegging the ages?? Let people who qualify go through regardless of their age

FreeIgboho:
How about geniuses like me
Not fair at all
Everybody is different

When abokiii is ruling you, na waiting you go dey see.. Upside down reasoning.

Anything to help Almajiris match up with Southerners

A smart genus will now wait for one Almajiri to reach 12yrs before they will enter jss1. Nonsense.

My children go dey employed and productive by 10yrs. If una like make una enter jss1 at 30yrs

nairalanda1:
Well if you were a genius, your genius won't be harmed by graduating at the age of 12.

No, it won't be. But some children have obviously academic inclinations, far beyond their age.

The youngest graduate finished university at age 10. These folks are here proposing 10.

MadamExcellency:
My youngest child has just escaped the strict policy. He is 12 years old and in Basic 9 (JSS3). I am preparing to send him to where they repair phones and computers for training since schools have just closed. He is into programming.

Does the government expect him to crawl with low-IQ kids in the name of education policy?

Nice. Education is Exposure, not just formal exposure. Please make sure the Oga monitors him so that the older people don't corrupt him. God bless your child and protect the child from wolves.

JS1 - Juniour Secondary 1
SS1 - Seniour Secondary 1
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JS1 NO JSSSSSSS1.

ogododo:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/fg-fixes-age-12-as-minimum-for-jss1-admission/

Completing Primary 6 was the norm back in the day until the early 1980s when some kids in so-called private schools (with the active connivance of their parents started writing exams into private secondary schools) began to skip Primary 6 in order to gain admission into secondary schools. Age 12 has ALWAYS been the standard age for admissions into secondary schools and there's a reason why that was done. I know some parents who were Uni academics back in the early 1980s who didn't allow their brilliant children to skip Primary 6 into secondary schools.

My 9yr old daughter just wrote her common entrance lastweek and graduation is set for tomorrow, she will be enrol in JSS1 in few weeks, am so proud of her right now. FG una dey joke

Allow your child to study properly, don't jump classes, it makes no sense, the other day I was coming home from work, I saw a little girl child in an oversized secondary school uniform, I kept on asking myself how we degenerated into this level, a child in primary 4 had to skip 2 classes to take entrance exam, it's unfortunate!!

Instead of fixing the country's economy, they are busy fixing other irrelevant things

EmperorIsaac:
10 should be it given Jamb's minimum. What a conundrum of policies!

I will report you to tinubu who go add remaining characters like this

The government is always abandoning leprosy to treat ringworm.

shoodboi2:
And what is the point?

And is kindergarten supposed to come after nursery or before? These people should let us be and stop all these gimmicks.

Funny thing is that their own kids won't be blind by these same draconian rules they're making.

Yea, kindergarten is after nursery

MadamExcellency:
My youngest child has just escaped the strict policy. He is 12 years old and in Basic 9 (JSS3). I am preparing to send him to where they repair phones and computers for training since schools have just closed. He is into programming.

Does the government expect him to crawl with low-IQ kids in the name of education policy?

Seriously, the government is just too daft, somebody wey suppose dey JS3 u say make him go dey mingle with primary 5 kids, which kind wahala be that

Old news na OP, pls always be informed timely.

This was the standard practice until business merchants masquerading as private school proprietors seemingly hijacked the education sector, more out of pecuniary considerations than any real commitment to turning the sector around.

As the the floodgates opened, all manner of schools began to spring up, many of which could be described as mushroom schools.


Since the goal is primarily to maximize profit, infants, some even yet to be weaned by their mothers are presently "pupils" of something, something like "Bread And Butter Nursery, Kindergarten, Primary And Secondary International Group Of Schools, Nigeria Ltd".


Many parents simply reach out to the ever-ready proprietors to repeatedly double-promote their children and wards after receiving gratifications from such unscrupulous parents.

Thus, at age 14, the child is ready for university education.


Haba!



@hotseat

prinsam30:
My 9yr old daughter just wrote her common entrance lastweek and graduation is set for tomorrow, she will be enrol in JSS1 in few weeks, am so proud of her right now. FG una dey joke

Oga or aunty's 9 years too young to be in secondary school let's call a spade a spade. Why rushing the innocent child and exerting unecessary pressure on her brain, why?

Clems79:
Allow your child to study properly, don't jump classes, it makes no sense, the other day I was coming home from work, I saw a little girl child in an oversized secondary school uniform, I kept on asking myself how we degenerated into this level, a child in primary 4 had to skip 2 classes to take entrance exam, it's unfortunate!!

My 9yr old daughter's ability is more than that of SS1 student and she just wrote her entrance exams and by God's grace she will be in JS1 so u want her to continue mingling with those kids without IQ abi continue

hotseat:
This was the standard practice until business merchants masquerading as private school proprietors seemingly hijacked the education sector, more out of pecuniary considerations than any real commitment to turning the sector around.

As the the floodgates opened, all manner of schools began to spring up, many of which could be described as mushroom schools.


Since the goal is primarily to maximize profit, infants, some even yet to be weaned by their mothers are presently "pupils" of something, something like "Bread And Butter Nursery, Kindergarten, Primary And Secondary International Group Of Schools, Nigeria Ltd".


Many parents simply reach out to the ever-ready proprietors to repeatedly double-promote their children and wards after receiving gratifications from such unscrupulous parents.

Thus, at age 14, the child is ready for university education.


Haba!



@hotseat

FG need to ban that nonsense double promotion.

Thank God I have finished school before these generation of backward leaders came on board. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
JSS1 that I started at the age of 11yrs.

Ok na.

Jayhome24:
Oga or aunty's 9 years too young to be in secondary school let's call a spade a spade. Why rushing the innocent child and exerting unecessary pressure on her brain, why?

Let's call a spade a spade, let them breath abeg no be their fault say dem sabi pass their pears

As they could not enforce 18 in the university, they now went on a counter offensive to do 12 in JSS1.

adedayoa2:
how many schools still have basic 6?

Low end schools. Standard school stops at Basic 6

ogododo:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/fg-fixes-age-12-as-minimum-for-jss1-admission/

Government that doesn't know what it's doing, just fishing out double standard policies everyday.