The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, in a bid to ensure that administrators, teachers and students comply with the COVID-19 protocols upon resumption for the Second Term of Y2020/2021 academic session on Monday, paid an unscheduled visit to some schools across the state.
The Commissioner led a monitoring team to assess the process in which the students were received, ensuring that COVID-19 protocols were strictly adhered to in order to curb the spread of the disease.
The schools visited included Millenium Secondary School, Egbeda.
Addressing pressmen during an interview after her tour of various schools, Mrs Adefisayo expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance of the schools, adding that the state government is very concerned about the safety of students and their teachers.
The Commissioner declared that the wellbeing of students, teachers and support staff is of utmost importance to the state government, which necessitated the unscheduled visit to the schools to determine how learning and teaching practice was being managed amidst the pandemic.
She decried the noticeable trend where some students are already roaming the streets and gradually losing interest in learning, which is very detrimental to their growth, stressing that the reopening of schools has been a very difficult decision amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as most vulnerable children are really going through a tough time.
“Many have already been put to work, doing jobs like mechanic, bus conductor, hawking on the streets, thereby exposing themselves to societal ills rather than being in schools which is a safer environment”, she noted.
She maintained that the “No face mask, No entry” slogan should be enforced in every school, adding that the usual morning assembly and sporting activities have been suspended till further notice, just as the Office of Education Quality Assurance will always visit schools to ensure full adherence to the COVID-19 guidelines.
