Kaduna State Government and her Blockhead teachers.

Kaduna State Government and her Blockhead teachers.

Indisputably, it is disheartening to read sympathetic write-ups from notable citizens and others faulting the decision of the Kaduna State Government to relieve teachers who failed the 'Competency Test' organized by the State Government and consider them for compensation. Left to some of us who don't give a hoot, those teachers should be made to refund their 2 years paid salaries, and pay damages to their pupils and the system.

FYI, these are questions meant for primary school pupils. How can you in your right senses castigate the Kaduna State Government and put up a defense for the show of shame by teachers who failed competence test, woefully. When you know that the products of any reaction is solely dependent on its reactants. Sad, those shameless blockheads even went ahead to stage a protest against the State Government, with stupid pontifications on placards and shameful songs.

Interestingly, these 'failures' won't teach their pupils well in the classrooms, because they can not give what they don't have. The bad eggs among Nigerian teachers sits in their staff rooms to gossip about others and sell their goods. On the long run, they will suggest extra coaching classes to the parents of their pupils who are performing poorly in class and later recommend 'paid' examination malpractices for their pupils. This patching continues, and leaves their students with a sole choice of 'paying' for high examination scores, in higher institutions.

Those blockheads have brought disrepute to those who have exemplified themselves in the discharge of their duties and to their students. In addition, they are always ready and quick to punish pupils who fail to get the answers right in examinations. In fact, many of us have scars we got from their merciless 'torture' and memories of how we were humiliated, because we had poor scores in our class works and in our given home works. Again, be reminded that teachers like those blockheads are the ones who sexually abuse our girls and boys and also extort them.

TBH, this mess is not peculiar to primary and secondary school teachers. Either as undergraduate students or as graduate students, we all know two or more lecturers who fall in this crappy category. All they do is come to lecture theatres with course materials given to them when they were undergraduates and to force their lecture materials downloaded from the internet, on helpless students.

It is a huge shame to say that teaching jobs are now distributed like campaign materials to rogues and party members who are illiterates, as compensation for their roles during the elections and as a price for their loyalty to the party.

Lest we fail to say that the decadence in our educational section is a generational buildup. Thus, the approach to solving this mess must be pragmatic and non-emotional.

Believe me, the same calamity awaits their 'same-same' colleagues in other States. Moreover, why the fuss, who says the examiners who examines students and marks exam answer booklets can not be examined.

Now, you know how we got here. Now, you know why year in and year out, students performance and pass rate in national examinations keep nose diving in many States.