Opeyemi Adelere
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has rejected plan by some private schools to start the third term of the 2019/2020 academic session online.
The acting Education Secretary for FCT, Umar Marafa, in a statement said that no school should commence academic activities in any form until a notice to reopen is approved and conveyed by the secretariat.
According to Marafa, the directive issued to schools at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic stated that they should be closed until further notice.
“It has come to the notice of the FCTA Education Secretariat that some private schools in the FCT are disseminating information to parents and students indicating the resumption of the 2019/2020 third term calendar online and parents were therefore expected to pay schools fees for this term prior to the purported resumption.
“In light of the above, any school purporting to reopen for 3rd term before the approved calendar for the opening of school post-Covid-19 is doing so against the provisions of the extant guidelines on the establishment and operation of schools in the FCT. Violators of this directive will face the full wrath of the law.
“The FCTA education secretariat has however concluded plans to introduce e-learning platforms to include lessons on radio and television channels to keep the students constructively engaged while the lockdown lasts,” he said.
FCTA also urged parents and guardians to ignore the purported resumption by the private school owners.
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