FALL IN EDUCATIONAL STANDARD IN NIGERIA:

TOPIC: FALL IN THE STANDARD OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA; WHOSE FAULT, PARENT OR GOVERNMENT?

Education in Nigeria has attracted much public discussion in recent times. Examining the indices of development and practices in implementing Nigeria’s school curricula to determine whether the fall in standard of education is due to the way in which schools are implementing skills acquisition.  

Poor implementation of school curricula was listed as one of the cause of poor educational standards, which causes inadequate skills acquisition. Areas to be revisited include curricula, school discipline, school ownership, teacher education and awareness levels of the links between education and self-reliance.

Blaming students, distraction is noted as the major cause on their parts. The same way a curriculum might not be good, students also add to their mishap. Cultivating a reading habit is better than staying glued to a TV set and having to procrastinate on doing their assignments with one excuse or the other. Adding to that, blackberry is no way close to helping the students, because every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to get a Blackberry or own a Blackberry and this is a major distraction, several social networks can be downloaded on that Blackberry and that’s not helping them one bit.

Still speaking on distraction, most students are always found in cyber cafes. Students don’t necessarily need to be seen in a cyber cafes, it’s easy for them to pay for their internet services on their phone and off goes the browsing.

Another factor is that the new games have added to the fall of the educational standards in Nigeria because every student I know either in primary school or secondary school wants a PSP…. Play station 3 or a WII and this is a major distraction for students” Narrowing down to the university level, these students stick to their Blackberries 24/7 and this kills them, yet they seem to ignore that fact.

Exam malpractice has eaten so deep into the system that nothing can come out of it. Some parents and some students have shown no decency and integrity.

 Also, we are in a society where it is believed that everything has a price; students don’t have time to study or do their home work, some parents pay their children just to read a book or two within a month, so that they can imbibe the reading habit. Besides, the parents are never at home to supervise them. They leave them at the mercy of house helps to go after money.

What students need to do is put all this factors aside and make it to the top. She believes it won’t hurt. The general answer as given by everyone is still the same. The standard of education in Nigeria is falling and they think the government is doing nothing but to sit back and relax and watch d education fall.

Looking from my own point of view, the blame should be on the parents, because some even most students are distracted by so many things, some are as a result of emotional imbalance or psychological problems  caused by their parents. Some parents don’t cater for their children; some maltreat them, while some abuse them. All these could cause great retardation to the development of a child, particularly in their academical lives.

Also, some parents buy unnecessary things for their children which cause great distraction and unserious to them, look at a secondary or primary school student having a blackberry phone, video game and even some times a car.

It is absolutely neither the problem nor the fault of the government. What determines the educational standard of a child is the basic foundation he or she has, and the only place a child could get that is from the parents. So if a parent is not able to build a solid foundation for his child, no blame should be put on the government.

It is stated in the CHILD’S RIGHT ACT 2003 that every parent should give his child a good educational upbringing and a condusive environment for learning. As a result, if the government is playing its own part by providing free education and the parent has refused to contributing his own quota, nobody should be blamed other than the parent.

Finally, the fall in the standard of education in Nigeria should be accredited to the parents and not the governments.