Parents Protest In Lagos As School Asks WASSCE Candidates To Lodge In Hotel
The protest took place in the early hours of Monday, with protesting parents locked outside the entrance of the school for hours.
In the early hours of Monday, members of Parents Teachers Association, PTA, Grace High School, Gbagada, Lagos, have protested the school’s directives that students, who are preparing for the forthcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, lodge in hotels to meet up with the timing of the exam.
The protest took place in the early hours of Monday, with protesting parents locked outside the entrance of the school for hours.
Speaking on the WASSCE candidates’ dilemma, one of the aggrieved parents, who simply identified herself as Mrs. Ada, also accused the school of asking them to sign an “indemnity if we want our children to resume, and we were wondering why that was necessary.
“We are SS3 students’ parents, and our children, WASSCE candidates, have been here for six years.
The school was supposed to resume on August 4. “We have a platform where we have been asking grace school management their plans for SSS3, when the government came out with the school resumption plans. But they didn’t tell us anything.
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“The Friday before August 4, they called for a PTA meeting via online and asked us to sign an indemnity if we want our children to resume, and we were wondering why that was necessary.
“Because the government didn’t say we should sign any indemnity. The government only asked that the school should put certain things in place for schools to resume.
“They now came back and said they are not opening the hostel facility. This is a school that has children from all over Lagos; considering the fact that 3rd Mainland and Eko bridges are blocked.
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