Towards the end of the week, the media was agog with scorecard of the states in the National WASSCE Examination. It was heart rendering that my dear Osun State was occupying the 27th position. Even northern states with perennial low cut off marks under the guise of the barbaric Educationally Less Developed States, performed creditably well more than the state. Before the dubious reform of our dear noise making governor, a student of Osun State had the best result in the same examination in 2011, and the state has always performed creditably well in all examinations from time immemorial.

The position of the State is the scorecard of Gov. Aregbesola in the educational sector and a great indictment of his failed policies in the education sector. When he organised the Educational Summit and made the erudite and highly respected Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka the head of the Summit that recommended the demolition and merger of schools, we asked him whether Prof Soyinka was an Educationist or a Literary Icon? Aregbe's sycophants told us Prof Soyinka knows it all. Here we are today with the result of the demolition and school merger. I am sure, Awolowo and Bola Ige will be "very proud" of Aregbesola in their graves.

Most of our grandparents were taught under the mango tree but they had good teachers and that is the reason the English of that generation is impeccable. Will I rather have a gigantic beautiful FG-assisted building (through UBE scheme) without teachers or teachers that are not paid regularly or when being paid they are usually paid half-salary and atimes, quarter salary; than being taught under a mango tree with good and happy teachers? Building are only good for aesthetics, the quality and dedication of the teachers are the ingredients that make the Educational sector vibrant and worthwhile. Mr. Governor will rather have the former and we can all see the result of his actions today.

Instead of the religious leaders to lay emphasis on the quality of education and regular payment of the teachers, they were all fighting for wearing of hijab, cassock or masquerade attire for their wards to school. Can you all see the results of your f00lishness now. Let me break it down for you, in case you do not know the meaning and implications of this. Your children are the ones attending all these water-coloured coated building that the Governor is celebrating, whereas his own children are in private schools, either in Nigeria or anywhere in the world. His children will have access to the best teachers in the world, while yours will have poor teachers or even no teacher at all to teach them. His children will pass their exams because they had good teachers and get ahead of your children in life, not because your children are dummies, but they simply do not have motivated teachers to guide through the process of adequate preparation for the examinations. Indirectly and directly they will be suffering for the stupidity of the religious sentiments and bigotry of their parents. The worst part of it is that all of your children, maybe i should use most of the children and not all, will end up becoming subservient to the children of the Governor and his cohorts, simply because you stood for hijab, sultana, cassock and masquerade attire when a mass rally for the dwindling quality of education should have been organised.

I do not even want to dwell on the failed Opon Imo tablet. This is a project that tax payers fund was merely used to enrich the few. If the fund had been used to purchase physical textbooks for libraries of different schools, state libraries and LG libraries, will it not have been better? Will posterity judge the Governor and his party APC right on this?

Mr. Governor even went ahead to make all the children of public schools in the state to be wearing the same uniform, stating that it will promote equality, as if the bunch of the children going to public schools are not from the same rung of the ladder of the society already. That was the excuse given, but we all know the beneficiary of the contract and the reason while the monopoly of the sale was created for the contractor. The same uniformity of school wear only promoted gross indiscipline, truancy and lawlessness in schools. The result of another not-well-thought-through policy of Mr. Governor is starring all and sundry in the face.

Borrowing money for projects for the state and failing to complete the projects is criminal enough, but dragging the status of the education of the State to that of ELDS is an injustice to the souls of our past heroes that sacrificed to create an enduring legacy by not looting the treasury but rather used the fund to provide quality and free education for all.

The consequences of this mass failure will be seen in 10years time, if these children do not amount to anything in life and they will have no other choice than to take to crimes to make a living. The whole society will bear the brunt of today's actions of Aregbesola and the ignoble silence of the whole state.

Mr. Aregbesola, you still have 2years to reverse the dungeon of failure you are plunging the education of the state into. save the future of this children by giving them quality education and not artificial water-coloured buildings. These children will prefer to be taught under the mango-tree by quality and motivated teachers than being in an aesthetic building without teachers. Your own children had the 2 -- aesthetic building and quality teachers/education. Please give only the latter to these children. That is the only way they will not end up serving your own children in the nearest future, that is the only way they will become somebody in life and that is the only way the society can sleep peacefully in the not too distant future. If you had spent the money you wasted in changing the name of the state to State of Osun, likewise the Government letterheads and signposts, on Education maybe the state will not be occupying the shameful 27th state in the federation.

For the elders in the state and religious leaders, you all need to jettison your political affiliations and religious grandstanding and stand for the future of the children of this state. Parents should also make their wards to see the implications of their failure on their future and the nation.

My one kobo.

Lalasticlala and mynd44 FP please.

the standard of education in osun state is so low that sometimes I weep for them.. am doing my service there now and I can tell u that the educational system is so bastardized that it is beyond repair

How else did we hope for? Aregbe's outlook alone and his unkempt beards are enough pointer that the his wisdom and understanding is a little bit lower than that of a mad man.

But he is exalted to control the affairs of millions of people because some people wanted to assuage their ego and swell their purse.

I pity the future of those children that had been wasted.

espionage48:
the standard of education in osun state is so low that sometimes I weep for them.. am doing my service there now and I can tell u that the educational system is so bastardized that it is beyond repair

It is so sad that everything in the educational sector and the state took a turn for the worst under the voodoo policies of the administration of Aregbe.

The only projects that are being completed now are the school buildings, which is funded under the FG-assisted UBE scheme.

I am 100% sure that if it had been a 100% state financed project, those schools will never be completed, just like the other failed projects that litter the state.

The result was shocking. I was shocked beyond belief with what is going on in the SW in general. We've lost our ways.

kayfra:
The result was shocking. I was shocked beyond belief with what is going on in the SW in general. We've lost our ways.

This is the reason we should not all keep quiet.

We need to champion the call to hold these Governors responsible.

Cc arresa ... Yoruba sycophants led Aregbese astray

Super1Star:


This is the reason we should not all keep quiet.

We need to champion the call to hold these Governors responsible.

i don't know how to send you a private message. But work is in progress. Just not on this platform.

Super1Star:


This is the reason we should not all keep quiet.

We need to champion the call to hold these Governors responsible.

I am not even moved anymore!! Used to be embarrassed & forlorn when these results are published but not anymore!

Why?

Where are the teachers to impart knowledge or guide these malleable minds ??

The state government is lackluster & the policies are skewed on the side of unreasonable but have you ever tried to have a conversation with teachers who aren't youth Corp members ? !

Take a random survey of most of these public school teachers, they are almost incapable of expressing themselves intelligibly, what on earth do we then expect them to teach?!

As for Aregbe, he needs divine intervention, he makes policy gaffes on a buy one get one free mode!


The whole country's educational system is bleeped & in need of major restructuring, banking on state governments to do it will achieve moving from zero to nothing!!

They will claim no money & policy constraints & as long as everything still rests with the centre, we need to tackle it from there.

1.We need the Fed govt to implement the abolishment of all these room & parlour insanashional sukuls, they are causing havoc , giving people who don't know better a false sense of fulfillment about what sound education really is...they aren't balanced! No rec , no extra curricular facilities.

2. We also need them to penalize schols that employ SSCE "fail outs" as teachers!!!

3. Make teaching attractive, better renumeration, training etc

4. Declare a state of emergency in ELEMENTARY education because this problem didn't spring up at the secondary level, it is from the miming A for Apple (without actually being able to spell the apple) that the gbege starts from!!

The matter get as e be!!

modath:



I am not even moved anymore!! Used to be embarrassed & forlorn when these results are published but not anymore!

Why?

Where are the teachers to impart knowledge of guide these malleable minds

The government is lacklustre & the policies are skewed on the side of unreasonable but have you ever tried to have a conversation with teachers who aren't youth Corp members!

Take a random survey of most these public school teachers, they are almost incapable of expressing themselves intelligibly, what on earth do we then expect them to teach?!

As for Aregbe, he needs divine intervention, he makes policy gaffes on a buy one get one free mode!


The whole country's educational system is bleeped & in need of major restructuring, banking on state governments to do it will achieve moving from zero to nothing!!

They will claim no money & policy constraints & as long as everything still rests with the centre, we need to tackle it from there.

1.We need the Fed govt to implement the abolishment of all these room & parlour insanashional sukuls, they are causing havoc , giving people who don't know better a false sense of fulfillment about what sound education really is & they aren't balanced! No rec & extra curricular facilities.

2. We also need them to penalize schols that employ SSCE "fail outs" as teachers!!!

3. Making teaching attractive, better renumeration, training etc

4. Declare a state of emergency on elementary education because this problem didn't start from secondary, it is from the miming A for Apple (without actually being able to spell the apple) that the gbege starts from!!

The matter get as e be!!

Word.

It is a national crisis, I quite agree.

Was just more concerned about my state of origin than the nation.

Osun under the rascal refrigerator technician is a failed state.

Only YAMS, Tajus and Mulikats will disagree.

Super1Star:


Word.

It is a national crisis, I quite agree.

Was just more concerned about my state of origin than the nation.

I'm in the same shoes but I won't let it bug me...

I have vivid recollections how hungry we were for knowledge, we were young readers back then, we read everything & anything we could lay our hands on!!

Someone getting new pacesetter book was a source of joy & "eye service", we all pick numbers on reading order, woe betide you if you misplace it cos you aren't offending the owner only, you also will get the cold shoulder from the folks who lost out...

It took me weeks to get "An African Night's Entertainment" for someone cos bookshops only stock recommended texts... The desire to read has deriously waned!!!

E dey pain me but a nor be government, I also don't have the influence to force things, so I just grew a thick skin & K.I. M !!

modath:



I am not even moved anymore!! Used to be embarrassed & forlorn when these results are published but not anymore!

Why?

Where are the teachers to impart knowledge or guide these malleable minds ??

The state government is lackluster & the policies are skewed on the side of unreasonable but have you ever tried to have a conversation with teachers who aren't youth Corp members ? !

Take a random survey of most of these public school teachers, they are almost incapable of expressing themselves intelligibly, what on earth do we then expect them to teach?!

As for Aregbe, he needs divine intervention, he makes policy gaffes on a buy one get one free mode!


The whole country's educational system is bleeped & in need of major restructuring, banking on state governments to do it will achieve moving from zero to nothing!!

They will claim no money & policy constraints & as long as everything still rests with the centre, we need to tackle it from there.

1.We need the Fed govt to implement the abolishment of all these room & parlour insanashional sukuls, they are causing havoc , giving people who don't know better a false sense of fulfillment about what sound education really is...they aren't balanced! No rec , no extra curricular facilities.

2. We also need them to penalize schols that employ SSCE "fail outs" as teachers!!!

3. Making teaching attractive, better renumeration, training etc

4. Declare a state of emergency on ELEMENTARY education because this problem didn't spring up in secondary, it is from the miming A for Apple (without actually being able to spell the apple) that the gbege starts from!!

The matter get as e be!!

Did you just blame the teachers who aregberascal refused to pay?


Did you just blame Osun Zika education levels on national decline?

You YAMS are by far the most irresponsible two legged beasts to roam the earth.

Keep ascribing blame to others for your own collective foolishness


Yeye zombie

Super1Star:


Where are the better avenues?

The issue raised is topical and germane and we should not bury the obvious because of "Yoruba vs Igbo" argument.

As for PDP vs APC, to hell with the 2 of them

I'll have to send you a message with the link, as for some reason (fear of competition?) directly linking the forum isn't welcome on here.

omohayek:


Your concern is certainly welcome, and shared by many others. I'm just doubtful that this is the right forum to discuss the issue, given the tendency on here to turn everything into "Yoruba vs Igbo" or "APC vs PDP". There are better avenues for discussion, if you're interested.

Thank you sir

I am shocked at the Naivety of the OP

BishopJuice:



[s]Did you just blame the teachers who aregberascal refused to pay?


Did you just blame Osun Zika education levels on national decline?

You YAMS are by far the most irresponsible two legged beasts to roam the earth.

Keep ascribing blame to others for your own collective foolishness


Yeye zombie[/s]

Rubbish

Concentrate on ur conspiracy theories

OyeniyiLeke:


Thank you sir

I am shocked at the Naivety of the OP

Naïve ke? He's been here for years. He only expressed his concern. We are all concerned.

Borno is ahead of many SW States. This is a shame.

OyeniyiLeke:


Rubbish

Concentrate on ur conspiracy theories

Osun doesn't need a conspiracy theory to know that they are forever fcked.


Why not concentrate on your ab0ki level

Useless Tajudeen

zimoni:


Naïve ke? He's been here for years. He only expressed his concern. We are all concerned.

This is a shame.

Oga mi

Better avenues to express your concern

This is not the place to do so

What will we achieve here?

Tell me sir

OyeniyiLeke:


Thank you sir

I am shocked at the Naivety of the OP

Keep deceiving yourself


Osun lags behind on every index in the south


Poverty, ignorance and stupid1ty is an osunite and you have a certificate forger and fake engineer leading you hinterland dwelling natives to prove it.


Aregberascal remains the most inept and foolish goat to assume the position of governor.

Useless state ruled by a certified fool