Delta To Sanction Teachers Rejecting Posting

The Delta Government has warned that henceforth, any teacher who rejects posting to any part of the state will lose his job.

It said that any Chief Inspector of Education or official of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education found aiding rejection of posting or re-posting of teachers would also be sanctioned.

The state’s Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, gave the warning in a meeting with State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) officials and Local Education Secretaries in Asaba.

Muoboghare also gave the education secretaries two weeks to submit the number of classrooms in primary schools in their respective local government areas.

He explained that the data would help in determining the number of teachers to be posted to primary schools, saying that the new policy in the state was that only one teacher would be deployed in one class in primary schools.

“You must go back to your stations and enforce this policy,” he told the secretaries, directing that excess teachers currently in urban schools should be posted to rural areas that lacked teachers.

He cautioned that any primary school teacher who could not teach all subjects in a class would have his or her appointment reviewed.

He noted that “a teacher should be able to teach all subjects in a primary school class as it was in the good old days”.

The commissioner hinted that the merging of some secondary schools, which had just been concluded in the state, would also be carried out in primary schools.

He also said that henceforth, schools in the state would charge N20,000 for the use of their premises for social and religious activities by members of the public.

The commissioner disclosed that a memorandum on the proposal would soon be presented to the state’s Executive Council for approval, saying that implementation of the policy would commence as soon as approval was given.