Delta State Government (DTSG), has urged principals of various public secondary schools across the state, whose teachers were affected by the recent transfer but refused to proceed to their new schools to ensure that the affected teachers in their schools do the needful or the principals and the teachers risk sanction.
The State Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu, handed down the warning in a statement made available to newsmen in Asaba.
Ezewu said that her Ministry observed that some teachers were still in their old schools, despite being transferred to new schools, adding that any teacher found culpable would be delt with decisively in accordance with the extant rule guiding the civil service.
The Commissioner reminded such category of teachers that the posting was in order and in adherence to due procedures, recalling that most of the affected teachers had stayed in their former schools for too long.
On the activities of private schools in the state, the Commissioner cautioned private school owners to desist from bothering parents with too much spendings on their children’s education with unnecessary Inclusion of unrecommended text books as part of measures to extort them .
Ezewu also implored private schools owners to shun graduation ceremony for students, especially those advancing from junior classes (JS3) to the senior class, emphasizing that such graduation ceremony would compound the financial burden of the parents.
She, however, admonished parents that cannot afford private schools to take their children to public schools, noting that the state government under the leadership of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has continued to improve the standard of public schools in the state.
By Magnus Emuji
