The Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Najeem Salaam, has defended
the state government’s decision to merge and re-classify the state’s public
schools.
He said this in Ejigbo when he paid a courtesy call on the Elejigbo of
Ejigbo, Oba Omowonuola Oyesosin. Mr Salaam appealed to the people
of the state to support the government in efforts to actualize the goals of the
policy.
He also appealed to religious leaders in the state to refrain from politicizing
the schools’ merger and reclassification.
“This is a new government’s policy aimed at
improving the standard of education; I think we need to give the government the
opportunity to experiment this new idea.”
The speaker said that the government was only
trying to use its meagre resources to improve the standard of education. In his remarks, Oba Oyesosin urged the people of the
state to cooperate with government in efforts to implement the new policy.
He said that the policy was to improve the
standard of education and not to relegate any religious organisation. The Osun Government introduced the schools’ merger and
reclassification programme, which grouped the public schools into three
categories.
The first category is the elementary school for
pupils with ages between six and nine years; the second is the medium school
for students with ages between 10 and 14 years, while students within the 15 to
17 age bracket are to attend the high school.
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