SHOCKING: Oyo shuts five schools over protests on promotion policy

Oyo shuts five schools
over protests on
promotion policy
Abiola Ajimobi
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The Oyo State Government on Thursday shut five
schools indefinitely over the protests on cancellation of
automatic promotion in public schools.
Prof. Adeniyi Olowofela, the State Commissioner for
Education, Science and Technology, announced this at
a news conference in Ibadan.
Three of the five schools are located in Oyo East and
Atiba Local Government Areas, while the remaining two
are in Akinyele.
The schools shut down are Community Secondary
School, Iyana Idi-Ose; Ojoo High School, Ojoo, Ibadan;
and Isale Oyo Community High School, Oyo.
Others are Anglican-Methodist Secondary School, Oyo;
and Oba Adeyemi High school, Oyo.
The commissioner said that government was
determined to enforce its policy of no automatic
promotion in all public schools.
He said that the policy was contained in a circular sent
to stakeholders in the education sector across the state
on April 23, 2015.
Olowofela said: “The effort was to address our
examination preparedness strategy with the immediate
cancellation of automatic promotion in all classes.
“This is because we are usually ill-prepared for
external examinations; our state always come
embarrassingly short, even behind states that are
traditionally considered to be educationally backward.”
Olowofela said that it was saddening that some
hoodlums, parading themselves as students, had
decided to cause mayhem in some schools, thereby
disturbing the peace in the schools.
He said: “It is our moral responsibility and sacred duty
to protect lives and properties of members of the
public.
“Therefore, any hoodlum caught in any form of breach
to public peace shall be dealt with according to the
laws of the land.”
He urged well-meaning students to continue with their
studies with the teachers on hand, saying, security
agents had been alerted of the development.
Olowofela also called on parents and guardians to
advise their wards to concentrate on their studies and
refrain from anti-social acts.

SOURCE: TODAY.COM