Underage Students Barred From Lagos Public Schools

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, has said the government would henceforth stop any pupil who has not completed primary six from proceeding into any public secondary school in the state.

Oladunjoye disclosed this, weekend during a stakeholders’ session with school proprietors, affirming that the era of admitting underage children into secondary schools in the state was over.
“Henceforth no pupil will be eligible for admission into any secondary schools in the state without completing primary six; the era of admitting underage pupils into secondary schools in the state has gone,” she said.

She also said a standing committee to harmonise the school calendar, curriculum and time-table for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (Junior Senior Secondary JSS111) of public and private schools in the state would be set up soon.
Oladunjoye explained that the need to align the school calendar, curriculum and time- table of public schools with that of private schools became necessary in order to standardise the process.
She also advised parents and guardians as a matter of fact to converse in their native language with their children and wards at home, stressing, “it is by so doing that our mother-tongue will not only be promoted but would be spoken effortlessly by the children.”