Lagos urges parents to ensure their children stay at home

Opeyemi Adelere

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, has warned parents against allowing their children to patronize private tutorial centres during the period of schools closure.

This was stated at the weekend in the course of a meeting with members of the Private Schools Association.

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The Commissioner urged parents to ensure their children stay at home, and have them engaged with some indoor activities, such as watching television, listening to radio or watching media sponsored teaching programmes by the state government.

According to her, the media programmes will be anchored by specialized teachers in eight core subject areas; Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, Literature in English and Financial Accounting. She added that the teaching would be circulated across various platforms on social media for easy accessibility.

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She further stated that the media teachings were targeted at the students in terminal classes, in preparation for their West African Senior Certificate Examination, Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and other external examinations.

Students were enjoined to take necessary precautions, such as avoiding body contacts, large gatherings, close contacts with a sick person or persons, regular hand washing, the use of alcohol based hand sanitizers and leaving a gap of 5 meters from anyone coughing and sneezing. She said that suspected cases of infected person should be reported to the appropriate authorities for proper medical interventions.

She said government was not relenting in efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, and as such, it was not a period to panic.

She explained that social distancing would prevent the spread of Corona Virus, adding that group gatherings and physical contact with infected persons could spiral its spread.