BY MAGNUS EMUJI
DELTA State Government has directed principals of public secondary schools, whose teachers were affected by the recent transfer exercise to ensure that they proceed to their new posting, or risk being sanctioned by the ministry.
Commissioner for Secondary Education, Mrs. Rose Ezewu handed down the warning in Asaba.
Ezewu observed that some teachers were still in their old schools, despite being transferred, adding that any teacher found culpable would be dealt with, along with their collaborators in accordance with extant rules.
The Commissioner reminded such category of teachers that the posting exercise was in order and in adherence with due process recalling that most of the affected teachers had stayed in their former schools for too long.
On the activities of private schools in the state, the commissioner cautioned their owners against bothering parents with exhorbitant fees, including unnecessary Inclusion of unrecommended text books as part of measures to extort parents.
Ezewu implored private school owners to stop graduation ceremonies for pupils and students, especially those advancing from junior classes to the senior class, emphasizing that such graduation ceremonies compounds the financial burden of parents.
She, however, admonished parents who cannot afford private schools to take their children to public schools, noting that the state government under the leadership of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has continued to improve the standard of public schools in the state.
