I read a post wherein a Student of a secondary school was expelled for Bullying his colleague. And that is what has informed my decision to write this.

Based on my observation, and the experiences I’ve had as a teacher, especially in private schools, parents are failing. There’s a poor parental responsibility. This accounts for why many secondary school students are misbehaving.
The schools which are meant to correct these misdeeds are rather the ones compounding and encouraging their misdeeds, insolence, insubordination and misdemeanours.

A teacher gives mathematics assignments to students, some groups of students consistently fail to do these assignments, and you can’t do anything about it. But the school continues to blame you for that. You ask them to submit their notes for marking, some will not submit, the school owners go round checking their notes to see if they are marked by the subject teachers, and when the notes aren’t marked, the teacher gets scolded right in the presence of same students. Like how?. I’m taking about SS1-3 students.

Imagine a student telling a teacher that’s he’s broke that’s why he can’t afford an Android phone. The teacher buys a brand new Android phone afterwards, and same student says it’s a fairly used phone.

Imagine a student telling a teacher that all his clothes are Okrika clothes and not Ready-made clothes.

Imagine a student telling his colleague that a particular teacher is Stupid and then the teacher overheard it. Yet, no action is taken by the school mgt.

Imagine a student telling a his colleague that a teacher’s head looks like a shield.

As a teacher, you can’t flog these students and you must be very careful of how you verbally react, because, your reaction is going to be used against you.

If a student commits an offence and you tell you’re going to report to the school owners, they are happy because they already know nothing will be done to them.

Students now bring their android phones to sch knowing fully well that its a contraband.
Imagine students gisting themselves of how they watch porn on their phones. No matter how rich I become, I can never buy or allow my child to use an Android phone as long as they are still in secondary school. If they need to do an assignment online, I can lend them my phone. Android phone is a distraction.

I tried so hard to correct all these, but the school saw me as an enemy of the students. I was the best staff for two consecutive years, I was everywhere doing all I could for the school. Even on Saturdays and Sundays, I attend meetings on behalf of the school.

I was suppressed. I’m a no-nonsense kind of teacher. Very friendly, but strict. But somehow, I became a vegetable since I was restricted from doing what should be done.

One day, I got to work, I was really not comfortable any longer, during the break period, I told my boss that I was resigning and I handed over everything in my possession to them, cleared myself and left. Four days to payday, but I couldn’t wait. My boss called to pacify me to reconsider my decision, but I said No.
Till date, I never regretted that decision . Parents(some) and my good students(some) still call to check on me.
I’m thankful to God for the lives I impacted. But right now, every passion I had for teaching is Gone. The passion is dead. School owners killed the passion.

My advise to young graduates should be to try as much as possible to learn a skill or two before graduation, so you can fall back to same skill(s) after graduation and earn a living with it. Do not go to any private school to teach, but if you must do so, do not stay there for Long. I repeat, Do not stay there for Long.