Kaduna State Government And Her Blockhead Teachers. By Sulaiman Kazeem.

Indisputably, it is disheartening to read sympathetic write-ups from supposed notable citizens and others faulting the decision of the Kaduna State Government to relieve teachers who failed the 'Competency Test' organized by the State Government and consider some of them for compensation. Left to some of us who don't give a hoot, those teachers should be made to refund their 2 years paid salaries, and pay damages to their pupils and the system.

Hypothetically, the decision to conduct a competency test for teachers in Kaduna State was a premeditated and well orchestrated move by the Governor Nasir Elrufai led government to downsize the over bloated workforce of the State. But how can you in your right senses castigate the Kaduna State Government and put up a defense for those teachers who failed the competence test, woefully.

It should bother you that the questions contained in the the said competency test are meant for primary school pupils. Sad, those shameless blockheads even went ahead to stage a protest against the State Government.

Interestingly, these blockheads won't teach their pupils well, because they can not give what they don't have. The bad eggs among Nigerian teachers sits in their staff rooms to gossip about others and sell their goods. On the long run, they will suggest extra coaching classes to the parents of their pupils who are performing poorly in class and later recommend 'paid' examination malpractices for their pupils.

In fact, many of us have scars we got from their merciless 'torture' and memories of how we were humiliated, because we had poor scores in our class works.

Again, those blockheads teachers are the ones who sexually abuse our girls and boys. Sad, they have brought disrepute to the noble profession and to the country at large.

TBH, this mess is not peculiar to elementary school teachers. Either as undergraduate students or as graduate students, we all know two or more lecturers who falls in this crappy category. These lecturers extorts their students and force their lecture materials which must have been downloaded from the internet, on helpless students. Believe me, it's a messier situation in higher institutions.

It is a huge shame to say that teaching jobs are now distributed like campaign materials to rogues and party members who are illiterates, as compensation for their roles during elections and as a price for their loyalty to their political party.

Lest we fail to say that the decadence in our educational section is a generational buildup and monumental. Thus, the approach to solving this aged mess must be pragmatic and very brutal. Pause and think about it, how do you tell the world that 75% of teachers in a particular Nigerian State failed 'Competency Test'.

Considering the inability of many State Governors to pay salaries, you will agree with me that the same calamity awaits their 'same-same' colleagues in other States. Left to me, I want the Kaduna State Government and other States to extend the competence test to other ministries.

Moreover, why the fuss, who says the examiners who examines students and marks exam answer booklets can not be examined.

Now, you know how we got here. Now, you know why year in and year out, students performance and pass rate in national examinations keep nose diving in many States.

@MrSteam_
14/11/2017