By Saheed Ibrahim

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The Chairman of Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board Mr. Victor Olabimtan has commended teachers in public primary schools for being punctual at their duty posts and living up to expectations as pupils resumed for the second term of the 2022/2023 academic session across the state.

Olabimtan gave the commendation after the completion of the on-the-spot assessment of resumption activities in selected schools across the State.

Before the commencement of the new term, the Board had approved the composition of four Monitoring Teams to undertake an on-the-spot assessment of resumption activities in some schools in nine of the eighteen local Government Areas of the State.

The Chairman, who was impressed by the earnest commencement of teaching and neatness of the environment of most of the schools visited, appealed to parents and guardians to release their wards to resume to schools as works have begun in earnest.

According to him, “parents and guardians must realise the teaching profession has advanced beyond the yesteryears of lackadaisical attitude and it is now more result oriented. They must know that right from the first day of resumption, classes have begun”.

He, therefore, directed Headmasters (HM) in the state to conduct HM’s Test immediately and the result must be part of the pupils’ Continuous Assessment for the term.

According to him, this news will get to those at homes and the farmsteads that classes had begun, tests conducted, and improve attendance in schools.

The former Chairman of the Ondo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), reiterated the commitment of the present administration to the growth and development of the basic education sector and appealed to parents and guardians to continue to patronize public primary schools because it is their project.

Olabimtan stressed that no private school in the state could boast of the quality of teaching and non-teaching personnel that are in public primary schools, including the learning environment.

According to him, the Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu administration has invested a lot of public funds to upscale and upgrade the basic education sector, especially the Primary School sector to make teaching and learning more attractive.

He said the Board would continue to do its best to build on the existing legacies to make the basic education sector the best in the country.

The Permanent Secretary Chief Dele Akinnagbe and the Director of School Services Mr. Adesoji Okedusi, who spoke in the same vein, said the Board would address the challenges of infrastructure deficits identified in the schools visited.