There’s a furious debate on Political Twitter Nigeria over Governor El Rufai’s decision to sack 21,000 teachers who couldn’t pass the Primary 4 Competency Test organised by the state government. Governor El Rufai had embarked on the test in a bid to clear the Kaduna Public School system of unqualified personnel.
In response to the Governor’s decision, angry teachers and their wards occupied the streets of Kaduna, saying “examination is not a test of true knowledge”.
A gem of a placard from the Kaduna teachers protesting their sack for failing a competency test pic.twitter.com/Hs6QAov4Fl
— tyro (@DoubleEph) November 8, 2017
Please allow me “ho ho ho ho ho; kwakwakwakwa kwa”.
Chim’ o.
Nigeria will not kee somebody.
Anyway, PDP member Demola Olarewaju has spoken in defence of the teachers. He advocates that what is needed is retraining of these illiterate teachers, if systems must be fixed. He also argues that sacking and employing new teachers might just be slapping band aid on a deeper problem.
See below:
Training is the answer
I believe everyone agrees that something should be done about the unqualified teachers in Kaduna.
Where we may differ however is on “what should be done” – and outright sack as Hell-Ruffy is proposing to do with them is definitely not the right answer to that question.
— Demola Olarewaju (@DemolaRewaju) November 9, 2017
El Rufai is right
Think systems
This shortcut to the answer is what gets Nigeria every single time since 1966. We don’t like processes. We don’t like systems. We prefer messiahs and cowboy leaders that jump to conclusions but leave the situation worse than they met it.
— Demola Olarewaju (@DemolaRewaju) November 9, 2017
Yes. There are also so many ways to skin a cat. Lagos embarked on EKO project, getting graduates to supplement old school trained teachers and retain some of them subsequently. I'm sure this pushed the old teachers to up thief game.
— Hola Ologe (@Hola_Ologe) November 9, 2017
@GovKaduna should learn from Peter Obi on how he revolutionized education in Anambra State by getting his hands dirty & not braggadocio & grand standing
— Baba Yaga ® 5% (@BabaYagaSE) November 9, 2017
Train fire
How can you Sir, be seriously asking for the retraining of Teachers who failed Pry 4 exams. PRIMARY FOUR exams. Noooo.
— NajiteAFC (@Najieze_KD) November 9, 2017
Training and retraining teachers that can't pass a Primary 4 class test? Train them how? By sending them back to primary school? Hell no! Let the money that will be spent training them be paid out to them as disengagement benefits and let them go get something else to do.
— Femi Akande (@Shadowy_Thots) November 9, 2017
How many generation will this people ruin before you use your head and think?
This people cannot pass PRIMARY 4 EXAMS. Can you see they are good for nothing!!
— Mustapha?? (@Alla_surre) November 9, 2017
A big question is how did did they get employed in the first place
— ogochukwu forchu (@truogs) November 9, 2017
You people's hypocrisy stinks and is disgusting. Now El-Rufai is lacking emotional intelligence because he's trying to overhaul the educational system we've complained of so much.
Do you people really want change or you just want someone u Like running things?
— Prof Ogom (@OgomV) November 8, 2017
See all of una?
You pulled your kids out of badly run public schools, with incompetent, poorly trained teachers & put them in fancy/pricey private schools, here & in the abroad, but una no wan public schools education reforms?
Una do well!! Why you no leave your pikin there??
— Juliet 'Kego (@julietkego) November 9, 2017
The key issue, in my opinion, with primary and secondary education in Nigeria is the quality of the teachers. It is good that El-Rufai is doing more than just the routine class room block construction.
The standard has to be set and maintained.
— Ikenna-先生 (@FailedRift) November 9, 2017
If you as a teacher cannot pass Primary 4 (!!!!) level assessment then you have no business in a school as a teacher. It is as simple as that.
Primary education is too important and foundational for any kind of sentiment, empathy and misplaced sense of entitlement.
— Ikenna-先生 (@FailedRift) November 9, 2017
Because it's Elrufai. Let's call him names and attack him for insisting that only educated people will teach our kids.
— Nedu Ekeke #BBOG (@Nedunaija) November 9, 2017
El Rufai has made it clear. On this matter, he will choose governance over politics. You all can vote him out in 2019 & vote in a governor that will bring back unqualified teachers to teach your kids. He has done his bit.
— Babanla (@biolakazeem) November 9, 2017
Gbam!
Reformed social media monitoring spirit
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