By In my journey as a teacher, I have met different kinds of teachers: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Some time ago, I experienced a funny situation; it happened in a government-owned secondary school in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.
There was this ‘senior’ teacher who taught Mathematics. She wasn’t doing her job, but then she was a senior. However, she was teaching a sensitive subject: Mathematics.
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The first step the principal took was to assign her to JSS 1. As a senior teacher, she was supposed to teach JSS 3 students. It was a junior secondary school, but assigning her to teach students who were preparing for an external joint examination would simply have been an act of wickedness; it would have been an injustice to those children. The senior teacher would not go to class.
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One day, I was passing by the JSS 1 block of classrooms when I saw a small girl, obviously in JSS 1, writing notes on the board.
She was writing Mathematics notes on the board, and no teacher was in the class.
I was dumbfounded.
So, the senior teacher sent Mathematics notes to JSS 1 students to copy! Who does that?
Although I had heard rumours about the senior teacher’s lazy and nonchalant attitude to work, I never imagined it could be that bad!
Some time later, the principal made an unusual announcement during the teachers’ meeting.
The senior teacher would no longer teach Mathematics; she would now teach CRS (Christian Religious Studies). Two corps members were also assigned to her to assist. Obviously, the corps members would be the ones teaching.
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Was she happy about the development? No, she wasn’t; she saw it as an embarrassment and a slap on her face. Nevertheless, she accepted the principal’s decision, and the children were rescued.
I wonder how many ‘senior’ teachers are out there…
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