The adjustments that will improve our academic standards.

Trying to discuss with students on a sensible topic is similar to watching a computer glitch. You've probably been on a glitchy website and you know that it's not an inspiring experience. Yeah! That's exactly how it feels to talk with some students and even some graduates.

An insane number of those in school don't know things you would expect a student at a specific level to know and even when you try to have a random conversation that involves reasoning, you will notice that they still don't have any clue of how to make a point.

Now, if you've noticed any of these, you will be forced to ask; What in the world are y'all learning in school? What do they teach y'all?

I think I'm going to be blunt while talking about Nigeria's educational system because it's a big mess and there is a big need for several sides of it to get refurbished.

At this very moment, several schools in the country are filled with teachers who do not have any business being around school premises. They are just not good enough and they don't even care about giving their best. And that's in addition to the fact that schools now have low academic standards. This is why it's not a surprise that the quality of students in schools is generally becoming worse with each passing year.

So many things are getting messy in the country, but I think the educational system got messed up even before the rest of the systems. This isn't to take away the fact that some schools have a fairly high academic standards. Some teachers break themselves in half just to get their job done. However, most of the schools are heading down the wrong path.

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Examination Malpractice is something I want to root out from our educational system.

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There is an exam we call WAEC in Nigeria. This is a West African Examination and anyone who finishes High School need to get good grades in that Exam before applying for a Higher Institution. That Examination has been a joke for over a decade and it's a very dirty joke.

This is how it works;

Schools shamelessly compel students to pay an examination malpractice fee before seating for each subject in this Exam. Paying this fee means that on the day of the Exam, you only need to show up and all the answers to the Exam questions will be printed out and shared for students to copy and paste into their answer sheets.

Yeah! You heard that right!

If you think I'm making this up, think again! Nigerians in here can tell you all about that. This is the trend and that practice is a big disgrace. Also, it can cause a really big downtrend in our educational system. Due to this, students who are in high school no longer pay attention in classes because they know they will just pay for the examination malpractice and all the answers they need will be handed out to them by the same people who taught them.

Now, schools promote that act. Teachers play along. Students love it. Parents pay for it and some parents even withdraw their students from a school once they notice that the school doesn't have that examination malpractice framework.

You see? As far as I'm concerned, rooting out examination malpractice is one of the major things I would like to do in Nigerian schools.

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Is there anything I would like to add to our school system?

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At the moment, most of the courses we study don't even guarantee an improved standard of living after graduation. If you are not going to school to study a very professional course like Medicine, you probably won't have a good job to do after graduation.

The school system has a knack for regurgitating the same old syllables which offer a parallel knowledge to folks. These syllables might have worked a few decades ago, but a lot has changed in the way of the world since then.

Since that's the case, how about we start teaching students the new trend? It will be nice to update the syllabus and adopt a way of teaching that will encourage students to engage in activities that will shape their minds differently. Teaching them to be avid learners and articulate would surely change the way they see things and make it easier for them to avoid chasing disciplines that are redundant.

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By the way, whatever happens with the quality of schools, it's still important for parents to pay good attention to their kids. Every parent has to make sure they play a big part in homeschooling their kids even if they go to the most reputable school in the world.

Thanks For Not Missing Any Full-stop Or Comma.
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