Go to unilag and see the huge number of babies in that place. Little children that should still be under their parents already at the mercy of the world.

I agree age isn't maturity but the pressure society is putting on these kids is too much. My last son will be 3 in May but hasn't started proper school but attends day care. He spends more time at home than the other kids and I observed that his sense of reasoning is at par with his peers who have already started goiing to school and waking up 6:30 am and returning 5pm..

Many of us try to replace parental tutelage with teachers instructions which aren't same. That's why many kids trust and respect their teachers more than their biological parents.

That is a backward mentality!!!

RenaissanceGuy:
I agree maturity varies with kids, but 8/9 is a no for me. The least should be 11 and he/she finishes at 17.

Someone's making some good sense here...11/12 is just fine. Anything less, in my opinion, doesn't cut it.

Argue all you want, but save exceptions (which prove s the rule by the way), cognitive skills needed for secondary education comes at the Level 4 (Formal Operational Stage; age 11-12) strata of the continuum.

goldenboyofpsy:
Just like a boss ahead of his contemporaries.
Lagos is waking up to address the emotional and social deficiencies of this rush where children don't mature before moving to the next stage of academic ladder.

It's a giant stride and I appreciate their concerns. Maturity is key and it will help us to challenge the pains,stress and headaches parents and lecturers face in school dealing with such immature lads.

I don't think it's a good idea. Allow children to move at their pace.

I've seen a 20-year old girl in SS2.

Some Children are naturally gifted and should not be held back..
People should not be punished for high IQs
This is a crazy idea.


Some children are capable of scoring above 300 in JAMB at age 15. Some can do PhD level mathematics
Some children are geniuses that is a fact of life

So such a child should sit in JSS3 doing what exactly?


Pele was at the World Cup at 17 ditto Mbappe should the have been held back?

If a 13 year old can run 100metres under 10 seconds should he be held back

Everyone has their own gift
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27923258


Messi

joined Barcelona as a kid that was his gift

We are in a democracy, was there any consultation or debate?
People just wake up one day an announce a stupid policy with immediate effect.
I'd that how to make policy?

Haba

OmoOAU:
At that age, I was in ss1 but here am I, almost 18 and still struggling to enter the University, despite the fact that I never failed jamb�....... This is really bad because admission into universities isn't automatically guaranteed upon graduation.

omo OAU

yers6:
I swear!!!!!!!! This is the best policy in education sector in recent years. Was still discussing this very crucial issue with woman days ago!!!!

Imagine a scenario whereby some new generation 'sophisticated' parents wants their wards in JSS 1 at the age of 7, 8, 9 or 10 and by the time the kid is 16 or 17, would already be done with university! And then by 19 would be done with nysc and then start working. And for those in majority, may not get a good job at that stage and so, life problems start hitting them with so much frustration which they were not fully prepared or grounded to face and then they resort to drugs, prostitution and other dangerous vices just to keep face or survive!

And there is where the challenge starts. Because they are still teenagers with the enormous mantle of grown adult's headaches, they become so directionless in life especially because most Nigerian men don't intend to settle down maritally or even take life very serious till they are 30 years and above. FACT!

Come to clubs on the island and you would weep for the new generations our so called enlightened and cosmopolitan parents are now raising. You would see young girls of 15, 16 from mostly Christian and Religious higher institutions of learning like Covenant, Babcock (the Babcock lady giving head last year in the viral video comes to mind here), Redeemers, Mountain Top, Caleb, Unilag, Leads, Alkhima, Afe Babalola, etc, flooding some of the most exquisite, expensive and classy night clubs on the island, in Owerri, Benin, PH, Abuja every and every weekend!

Or why do you think new exquisite clubs are opening up every other day in Lagos and those cities mentioned? High rate of slay queens everywhere? Or astronomical numbers of mamalawos on IG? Or the fact that weed, codeine, and other 'get high' drugs are recording the craziest sales ever? Its beyond just the fact there are big boys ready to spend but simply because the young and willing underage girls from the higher institutions of learning abounds massively like the sands in the ocean. You see young girls at age 17, 18, 19 among them already having flapping and seriously sagged breasts**.

And you begin to wonder if they are not young girls from so called prestigious and religious universities where security was very tight, where morals were preached and impacted on all fronts, where their parents spend fortunes on them to be in so called best schools?

If you were one brought up in a strict home and responsible background and happen to see things as they are in those cities mentioned, you would weep bitterly.

Don't get get this submission wrong as this is not to generalise that all underaged kids in universities are bad or irresponsible. Far from it. Still a lot are well raised and doing remarkably well even after graduation. Because age at times doesn't translated to maturity. But the danger lies in having kids who are not raised well to fully absorb the crude shocks of life in the majority!

How can you explain so many 16 years olds in 400 level in universities but are already deeply enmeshed in drug abuse? Or the girls that have committed several abortions that they have lost counts? Or those who have been to 100's of exquisite clubs in and out of the country at age 16/17? Thats why you see so many childish comments on social media posts and forum especially on Nairaland in recent years and you begin to wonder, who are these so called young adults with terribly childish mentality? How can you then explain the highest numbers of young boys and girls committing suicides in recent years when we all know Nigerian rarely commit suicide? By time the damage has been seriously done on those boys and girls, you now see their mother's en masse in churches and other religious gatherings seriously praying and fasting for God to touch the soul of those already destroyed children.

We play and pray too much in this country!

So on point!

This is one of the few sensible and apt submissions I have seen in this forum in recent times. Please keep it coming. With people like you around, I think the hope to see a great Nigeria is not lost after all.

Weldone!

Staphylococcus:


Am very sorry please.

When you say competition, what does it mean.

I've heard things like, my child is 3 years old and smarter than Mrs X's child who is 4 yrs and in Pry 1, so I'm putting my child in Pry 1 in another school. I hope you understand this

Everyone supporting this nonsense is an slowpoke.

Daymur:



So on point!

This is one of the few sensible and apt submissions I have seen in this forum in recent times. Please keep it coming. With people like you around, I think the hope to see a great Nigeria is not lost after all.

Weldone!

Nonsense. In fact, that sounds uncannily like the 'justification' my muslim colleague put forward for child marriage.

Farki:
I entered JS1 at 10 years old, did I die? All the people above me are just saying crap.

10 years old is okay!!!Honestly!!!

Fidelismaria:
This is wrong

10/12 would have been better

10 is a no-no!

Thia idea is outdated.kids mature faster nowadays.besides there is no point In slowing down a kids life for some archaic beliefs. Going through school faster affords someone many years to work and make something for oneself I not that u graduate and in little time u are old .not going through school is what makes some people still look for children's school fees even after retirement

bukatyne:


What boss?

And the poor child comes out of school at 26yrs with no job experience when all companies want 22yr old with 10years experience.

Carry go.

Very senseless policy.

Please tell them...

Farki:
I entered JS1 at 10 years old, did I die? All the people above me are just saying crap.

I swear same here. I also entered Js1 at 10 nothing bad . It should be 10 not 12 graduating from sec school at 16. Maybe its because of this our "age is maturity" mentality that chinese kids are making strives in Tech and our teens are busy making tictok videos

missimelda01:
So 8years old in primary 6 would have to wait for 4 years before entering secondary school

They should start this from the new set entering KG 1.

What is an 8 year old doing in secondary school?

Where is he running to?

yers6:
I swear!!!!!!!! This is the best policy in education sector in recent years. Was still discussing this very crucial issue with woman days ago!!!!

Imagine a scenario whereby some new generation 'sophisticated' parents wants their wards in JSS 1 at the age of 7, 8, 9 or 10 and by the time the kid is 16 or 17, would already be done with university! And then by 19 would be done with nysc and then start working. And for those in majority, may not get a good job at that stage and so, life problems start hitting them with so much frustration which they were not fully prepared or grounded to face and then they resort to drugs, prostitution and other dangerous vices just to keep face or survive!

And there is where the challenge starts. Because they are still teenagers with the enormous mantle of grown adult's headaches, they become so directionless in life especially because most Nigerian men don't intend to settle down maritally or even take life very serious till they are 30 years and above. FACT!

Come to clubs on the island and you would weep for the new generations our so called enlightened and cosmopolitan parents are now raising. You would see young girls of 15, 16 from mostly Christian and Religious higher institutions of learning like Covenant, Babcock (the Babcock lady giving head last year in the viral video comes to mind here), Redeemers, Mountain Top, Caleb, Unilag, Leads, Alkhima, Afe Babalola, etc, flooding some of the most exquisite, expensive and classy night clubs on the island, in Owerri, Benin, PH, Abuja every and every weekend!

Or why do you think new exquisite clubs are opening up every other day in Lagos and those cities mentioned? High rate of slay queens everywhere? Or astronomical numbers of mamalawos on IG? Or the fact that weed, codeine, and other 'get high' drugs are recording the craziest sales ever? Its beyond just the fact there are big boys ready to spend but simply because the young and willing underage girls from the higher institutions of learning abounds massively like the sands in the ocean. You see young girls at age 17, 18, 19 among them already having flapping and seriously sagged breasts**.

And you begin to wonder if they are not young girls from so called prestigious and religious universities where security was very tight, where morals were preached and impacted on all fronts, where their parents spend fortunes on them to be in so called best schools?

If you were one brought up in a strict home and responsible background and happen to see things as they are in those cities mentioned, you would weep bitterly.

Don't get get this submission wrong as this is not to generalise that all underaged kids in universities are bad or irresponsible. Far from it. Still a lot are well raised and doing remarkably well even after graduation. Because age at times doesn't translated to maturity. But the danger lies in having kids who are not raised well to fully absorb the crude shocks of life in the majority!

How can you explain so many 16 years olds in 400 level in universities but are already deeply enmeshed in drug abuse? Or the girls that have committed several abortions that they have lost counts? Or those who have been to 100's of exquisite clubs in and out of the country at age 16/17? Thats why you see so many childish comments on social media posts and forum especially on Nairaland in recent years and you begin to wonder, who are these so called young adults with terribly childish mentality? How can you then explain the highest numbers of young boys and girls committing suicides in recent years when we all know Nigerian rarely commit suicide? By time the damage has been seriously done on those boys and girls, you now see their mother's en masse in churches and other religious gatherings seriously praying and fasting for God to touch the soul of those already destroyed children.

We play and pray too much in this country!

.

I concur with your submission, its a pertinent fact that high rate of suicide in these foreign countries has to do with same problems listed above, because by they reach 30 to 40 & those flat boobs don't sell or no parental support then suicide is the next option. Google the average age of suicide in South Korea and compare it with these children age in Nigeria, hence you have your answer.

Donald3d:
This honestly makes no sense at all.
If you don't groom a child well in all facets of life, no matter how old they are they would misbehave

Grooming that child has to take his/her cognitive skills into consideration. It can't be done in isolation and said cognitive skills is a function of age.

I see dis as an islilimization agenda since most northerners usually start school at a later age

Pious101:
Na wa o...that means they re expected to finish secondary school at 18 years of age when even at 16 some are already in level 1 or 2 in higher institution.

Lagos doesn't mean well for their citizens. I knew it. Draconian laws. What is their business with this to make such a stupid and backward law?

The truth is, we are having too little kids passing into adult stages too quickly, and it comes with its own side effects.
A mature mind tends to handle life situations better

This is a lazy approach.

Children develop at different rates. You cannot hinder a child just because other children are not as quick to learn.

The problem of underaged underperforming students is solely the fault of the schools who promote them regardless of their performances.

This is counterintuitive. There are so many gifted children in Lagos nowadays. They grasp concepts quickly and are able to hold intelligent conversations with adults. A blanket solution is not the way to go.

What they should concentrate on is the foundation.

Every little child must be taught how to learn. Don’t just teach a syllabus.


Well, I’m just here typing grammar on NL. When I become a father, if I still reside in Lagos and that policy is still in place I will make so much noise and drag them till they give my kid an exemption from such a backward lazy policy.

eni4real:
Please tell them...

As in!

The kind of un-employment that will hit in years to come ehn?!

The senseless of making policies in silos.

missimelda01:


I've heard things like, my child is 3 years old and smarter than Mrs X's child who is 4 yrs and in Pry 1, so I'm putting my child in Pry 1 in another school. I hope you understand this

Wow!

Am speechless.

Anyways, Thanks

DarkJeddi:
What is an 8 year old doing in secondary school?

Where is he running to?

I don't know, private schools should be held accountable.

Doesn't make sense. We are in a digital age and age doesn't equal maturity. So you force Lagos based kids to become 18 before leaving secondary schools when in other climes, by 18 you have a degree...

DarkJeddi:
What is an 8 year old doing in secondary school?

Where is he running to?

What concern of yours is it? Children mature differently, and receive different levels of education. Why should the exceptional be held back?

Why do Nigerians hate the exceptional?

Imagine one clown above wailing about Babcock and Covenant students as if these same young kids don't come out and outshine many of their 'elders' in job interviews.

bukatyne:


A child does 12 - 18yrs in sec school.

Struggles to get admission for 3yrs.

Enters 21ys and graduate at 26.

Serves at 27 (if called immediately).

When will the child start to work?

You will just start another cycle of old children still feeding from their mother's pots.

Una contiune!

Shebi KPMG and co will still want 22yr old graduates with 10 years working experience.

Ask them about the age when Gowon became the Nigeria President??

They just want to limit children with their wrong policy!!

Na Lagos go lose. Many parents will take their wards to neighbouring States for secondary education.

haaaaaaaaa:
So that they will graduate and not have the opportunity to work in multinationals like KPMG, Accenture etc. Wicked human beings

we want graduates who can create jobs and build multinationals. Why are some black folks stupid?

Pious101:
Na wa o...that means they re expected to finish secondary school at 18 years of age when even at 16 some are already in level 1 or 2 in higher institution.

it's better.this one that there's influx of under aged children in the university will reduce

You will be seeing 14 years old in university because parents want them to graduate at 18.

If Lagos state government doesn't curb admission of underage children in the university, small time you will start seeing 10 years old saying he too is an undergraduate

Anyway I'm not surprised.this days anything goes.children will be birthing children.you will see an adult with the characteristics of a child having children in the university.theres no difference between them and their children in terms of iq

The only thing required for you to have a child in the university now is for you to have been sexually active as an adolescent

bukatyne:


As in!

The kind of un-employment that will hit in years to come ehn?!

The senseless of making policies in silos.

"...In silos"