Teacher Sending Pupils On Domestic Errands, Please Read This

If you are a teacher in Ondo State and are in the habit of sending your pupils on domestic errands to your residence or farm, then read this piece of information.

The government would have none of that again and has warned that you would be sanctioned if caught.

The warning against using pupils for domestic errands in their private homes and farms came from Special Adviser (SA) to Governor on Special Duties, Doyin Adebowale.

The Eagle reports that the SA gave the warning in Akure adding that the perpetrators had been hiding under the guise of practicals to engage the pupils on such domestic errands in their private assignments.

 “Some send female pupils to be cooking for them.

“We are sending warning to teachers to desist from such act. Our office will not hesitate to prosecute any teacher found abusing our children.

“The government is not asking the teachers not to instill discipline. Government does not interfere in the running of schools but we insist the pupils must participate in agricultural practicals in the school farms.

” We are going to monitor the schools and whoever is found wanting will be sanctioned.

“We will follow the law to sanction teachers. If you take pupils home to go and cook for you, to work in your private farms.

“We will invoke the law. We recognise the sacrifice of genuine teachers.

” We insist that nobody will take advantage of our children. Hire private hands to work in your farms. Whoever is caught will not find it funny.”

The state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Victor Akomo in his reaction however said the allegation of using pupils on domestic errands was not true.

“Teachers don’t do that again. We do not believe it is happening in our schools. We have extra lessons and no time for the pupils to go to any homes. It might be a speculation”.

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Notwithstanding, Akomo added that the state government was at liberty to sanction any teacher found culpable.