A Lagos lady has sparked reactions online after calling out a private secondary school for allegedly making her younger sister and other Junior Secondary School 1 (JSS 1) students wash toilets and carry out other menial tasks.
The lady reportedly visited the school after learning about the activities the students were being asked to perform. During her visit, she entered a classroom and confronted the teachers over the practice.
However, the teachers defended the school’s actions, insisting that assigning students such duties was part of their training.
Disagreeing with their explanation, the lady maintained that children were sent to school to acquire knowledge and receive proper education, not to be turned into domestic workers or cleaners.
She questioned the justification for making young students handle such tasks, stressing that there should be a clear difference between teaching children discipline and subjecting them to duties that should not be imposed on them.
The incident has sparked conversations about students’ welfare, school responsibilities and the limits of assigning domestic chores to children in the name of discipline and training.
Read some comments below:
@SirJay:”She is fighting a just cause. Washing of the school toilet and general cleaning is the job of janitors, students shouldn’t be made to do this.”
@Chukwuemeka Chukwu:”All these Gen-Z mothers, something wey we even use hand wash toilet, cut grass, even help our teachers to plant yam and tomatoes for their farm that year.”
@Black Chocolate 🍫:”Idk man just get cleaners to do the job, let their parents teach them how to wash toilets in their house!”
@johhnyntravoltaESQ:”Omo you idiots in this comment section really deserve Nigeria lol. So a private school does not know how to operate with a cleaning budget which is the most primary item even before a building is erected? My child should do chores at home and in school while I hustle for fees?😂”
@Nweze:”Noncence, this is how they end up raising lazy adults, as for me my child will wash the toilet and do any other thing within the range of her age,it’s also part of learning.”
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