By Millicent Ifeanyichukwu
The Lagos State Government has executed a total of 1,449 infrastructural projects in schools, to enhance a conducive learning environment.
Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, Lagos State Commissioner for Education, disclosed this on Friday while speaking during a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum.
The commissioner said that 1,036 schools benefitted from the projects in 20 local government areas of the state.
“We’ve worked on 1,449 projects and these include; school buildings, renovations, provision of furniture, labs and equipment.
” And the idea behind these projects is to make schools across the state look good and to further create enabling environment for conducive learning both for the students and teachers,” she said.
However, she identified negligence and helicopter parenting by some parents as contributory factors to the prevalence of cultism and bullying among students.
According to her, helicopter parenting has made some students not to be strong to withstand some activities around them, while negligent parenting has made some students become cultists.
Adefisayo said curbing cultism and bullying among students will not just be by preaching and talking to them alone but through multi-dimensional approaches.
“Good teaching also helps because when the students are engaged in school, sometimes they don’t want any trouble.
“One thing we have looked at again is to expand the academic curriculum so that there is something for everybody,” she said.
Meanwhile, she said that the state government was also addressing the spiritual part of raising children by making Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge compulsory in junior schools.
In addition, the Lagos state government is building sports centres around the state, which would help to engage students and keep them away from cultism and bullying.
NAN