Onitsha school proprietors task parents on quality education

Parents have beenurged to take education of their children seriously and desist from practices that will endanger the lives and future of their children by engaging them in street hawking, child labour and other forms of child abuse.This was contained in a massage delivered by the coordinator of the National Associationof Private Schools in Onitsha, Mr Solomon Onyebeke, during the association's annual awardceremony.Onyebeke noted that sending children to hawk on the street, while their mates were in the school was detrimental to the lives of the children and amounted to total child abuse with dire consequences.He stated that private schools had contributed immensely to the elevation of academic standard in Onitsha and the entire Anambra State, adding that the awardees were those who fought to see that private institutions are given a free hand to operate in the state, adding that the award was to appreciate hard work and dedication.Responding, one of the awardees and a proprietor, Mrs Francisca Chinwe Okeke, disclosed that her intention in opening a school was to contribute her quota in the improvement of the education sector, by reviving students' interest in quality education, 'our children are no longer serious with their studies instead they engage in social activities,' she stated.Okeke, however, appealed to the proprietors to make sacrifices that will ensure that the less privileged can also access quality education by making the school fees affordable.Another recipient, Princess Tina Aruonu, said that the award was to spur people up to work harder, and contribute to the growth of the association, which she said still has room for growth and improvement.Aruonu, who is the immediate past president of the association, lamented the declining reading culture among students, which he said was largely responsibly for poor academic performances in the country's education sector.
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