50% Of Osun Public Schools At Risk Of Attacks – Report
A comprehensive security report on the state of security in secondary school in Osun State reveals that 50 per cent of the public secondary schools in Osun State is vulnerable to attacks by hoodlums.
Investigation revealed that while special schools were facing infrastructural challenges, most of the buildings in the schools were old, dilapidated and without perimeter fencing.
Also, there had been a shortage of qualified teachers in secondary schools in Osun State, a development which affected the accreditation of schools for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and National Examination Council, as urban schools were found to be over-concentrated with teachers at the expense of rural schools.
These were some of the observations in the 68-page Report of Osun Education Summit 2023, prepared by the state government in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, and obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday.
The 2023 Education Summit Committee was saddled with the responsibility of assessing the condition of secondary education in Osun State to reposition the sector for better performance.
The report also says about 50 per cent of the public secondary schools in Osun State do not have night security guards. This needs to be looked into to guarantee the safety of school properties. The government and other stakeholders like the PTA and alumni bodies of various secondary schools in Osun State are enjoined to make necessary arrangement to employ night guards to secure public secondary schools in the state where there is none.
According to the there are insufficient learning centres for persons with special needs (only one) secondary school for persons with special needs in the state). There are insufficient teachers in special schools.
Meanwhile, Parents always dump their children in the schools without visiting them or coming to pick them up during mid-term breaks.
