Ondo State Government has declared that the promotion of the public school teachers is attached to the academic performance of their students.
The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hon. Victor Olabimtan, who stated this, said promotion of teachers will no longer be business as usual just as they always do.
While meeting with the Education Secretaries from the 18 Local Government Areas of the state, Olabimtan he disclosed that the state government would soon introduce performance bonds for teachers of public primary schools where promotion will be based on the academic performance of students.
He maintained that tidious punishment will be put in place for teachers who abandoned their duty posts while he said there would be close monitoring and high supervision of academic activities in schools.
According to him, the directives steps became necessary to promote better performance of pupils in public schools in the Common Entrance Examination into Public Secondary Schools in the State.
He expressed the state government’s disappointment over the level of performance of the pupils, despite providing an enabling environment for good performance and employment of teachers but said promotion of teachers on performance basis will commence from next year.
He said, “Consequently from the next year no teacher will be promoted to the next grade levels especially from 13 and above without empirical evidence that the wards under him or her performed very well in their examinations”
Olabimtan said the state government cannot continue to pretend as if all is well with the system, lay by, and gloss over the current performance of pupils in Public Schools for a state in which education is its main industry “Considering the state government’s huge investment in the basic education sector through the construction and renovation of over 900 schools and the distribution of free instructional material to pupils, the government expects better delivery from teachers and performance from pupils in all examinations.”
He advised the Education Secretaries and Head Teachers to live up to expectations and said the state government would not hesitate to deal with anybody, no matter how highly placed, trying to sabotage the established high-performance standard in Education the State is known for.
He, however, maintained that as from next year there is not going to be automatic promotion for any teacher in our Public Primary Schools, as a way of improving the performance of pupils at both internal and external examinations in all Public Schools in theastate.
He admonished the Education Secretaries as the head of each Local Government Education Authority Area, LGEA, and Headteacher of various Schools to be on top of their jobs as they will be held responsible for any lapses in their areas and schools.
While underscoring the need for Education Secretaries and Head Teachers to embark on a vigorous enrollment drive for pupils before the commencement of the new academic session in September to increase pupil population in their schools.
The Chairman also directed the School Administrators to engage all the necessary stakeholders in the LGEAs like traditional rulers and their likes in the advocacy campaigns to achieve desire goal.
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