Kunle Adelabu
Dr Saheed Ibikunle, Permanent Board Member, Lagos State Basic Education Board (LSUBEB), has urged parents to ensure that their children/wards who have been away from schools for over two months due to the lockdown ordered by the government to curtail the spread of COOVID – 19, keep learning at home.
The academic cum politician, while stating that parents and children should endeavor to take the advantage of the ‘Classroom at home’ initiative created by LSUBEB on Television, radio and online platforms, said that parents and their wards should not assume that they are lockdown and as a result, abandoned learning.
He spoke with THE IMPACT at the African Bethel Primary School in Ikorodu, the venue for the Modified Homegrown School Feeding programme held on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
“My message to parents and pupils at home is that they should tap into various opportunities that are being provided to keep learning through the ‘classroom at home’ programme organised by SUBEB where we teach students on Television and also on the radio”, Dr Ibikunle urged.
“They should not assume that they are lockdown and not in school.
“They should keep studying, learning in their various homes using all the opportunities that have been made available online through audio-visual means. They must keep learning.
While responding to our reporter’s question regarding the efforts being made by the government to address the infrastructural situations in schools during the lockdown, he said:
“Every government, l am sure, will always want to be alive to its responsibilities. One should take a cue particularly from the government of Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu regarding his passion for education and the enormous and huge resources he has voted into it.
“This shows and display that government is alive to its responsibilities as far as education is concern in Lagos State. Infrastructural developments in our schools is a continuous thing.
“Training of our teachers is another thing that is a continuous process. You can see that in the recent time, government employed 1,000 teachers into our secondary schools. Employment of additional 2000 is also on the way for primary schools.
“When you talk about infrastructures and human capacity development, I think that the Lagos State Government has done a lot and it’s still ready to do more as far as the standard of our schols is concern. That is even evident in the recent Eko Excel where our teachers now teach with gadget called ‘Tablet’ in the classrooms.
“We have been training teachers and if not for the pandemic, by now, we would have touched all the 1, 016 primary schools in Lagos State”.
