Parents of students in public secondary schools in Ogun State are to start signing undertakings on behalf of their wards to curb unruly conducts in schools.
Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, ldisclosed this on Friday, when he appeared before the Ogun House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation in Abeokuta, to defend the ministry’s 2022 budget.
The Commissioner pointed out that the development, was part of measures to check the increasing rate of social vices such as hooliganism and cultism to ensure peace, both within and outside the school environment.
He assured that government had redoubled efforts to ensure that the menace was nipped in the bud.
According to him, stakeholders including parents, teachers and security agents had come up with different approaches that would holistically address emerging misconducts among students.
He also explained that a School-Based Management Committee was being put in place to serve as interdisciplinary source to track and report any act inimical to peace within the school environments.
The commissioner said the ministry was equally reviving sporting activities to further engage pupils in extra-curriculum activities, in addition to the resuscitation of moral teaching during morning devotions.
He stated further that the ministry would further empower secondary school principals and strengthen the school-based management committee towards profiling all pupils in the schools to weed off bad eggs.
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