The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through its Education Secretariat, has vowed to shut down schools contravening the rules of operations in the nation’s capital city, to mitigate scandalous incidences involving children in the learning environment.
Also, the FCTA admonished parents not to surrender their parental responsibility to schools, as there is no excuse for any parents to allow their kids to be wayward in society.
This position was disclosed on Tuesday by Secretary of the Education Secretariat, Malam Sani El-ktuzu, when he led FCTA officials to Chrisland school, in Wumba District, Abuja, in the wake of the controversy trailing the recent sex scandal involving a female student and three other males of the Lagos arm of the school, during an international sports competition in Dubai.
El-ktuzu said officers from the FCT Department of Quality Assurance had recently visited Chrisland school and other schools including public schools, in order to enforce standing school rules and regulations in FCT. While noting that the Secretariat as a regulatory body, won’t hesitate to close any school, once it is in default of the rules of operations in FCT.
According to El-Ktuzu; “Our people do their job by constantly visiting both public and private schools, that is why we have low incidences of unfortunate situations in our schools.
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“I would advise parents to take the training of their students very seriously. We should not surrender our parental responsibility to schools, as they simply cannot as once you’re not a parent, there is no way you can give parental care,” he stressed.
Responding, the Principal of the school in Abuja, Taiwo Adenariwo, disclosed that some of the sanctions that were imposed Chrisland in Lagos have been lifted because the investigation was still ongoing.
According to him: “It’s a welcome development for all stakeholders in the business of taking care of our children especially the schools, the FCT Education Secretariat has done well, in visiting us to sympathise with us and also to offer advice, in regards to the issue.
“We must also begin to bring parents into the narratives, we must begin to let them know that there are consequences for some of the things that we do with our children, as they are not just the responsibility of the schools alone.
“For us in the FCT, and all our other schools as well, we are doing everything important to make sure that children turn out the exact way we want them to be, morally upright and spiritually filled.”
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