A LIBRARY IS THE BRAIN BOX OF A SCHOOL!...PARENTS, PLEASE READ THIS ...

[caption id="attachment_20742" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Barbara Tuchman[/caption]

TO NIGERIAN PARENTS,WHEN LAST DID YOU CHECK  THE LIBRARY IN YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL?

1.FIRSTLY WE WISH TO QUOTE FROM AN EARLIER WRITE-UP AS FOLLOWS

” Today, we educators must come to terms with the realities of our info-tech age. The methods used in the past to educate us are in the main not relevant to our children. There are too many distractions calling for their attention within the limited time available for studies. Unfortunately many students are often mistakenly labeled as lazy or lacking needed concentration! But by the time you take out school hours, class assignments, home chores, family social  commitments, Premier/ Champions Leagues, Facebook/Twitters, Ipod/Ipad, Big Brother, Naija sings, Naija/American idols,  X-Factor, Bachelor/Bachelorette, hand-held phones and web roaming one is left to ponder when these children can read seriously or ever take their  studies seriously! Above all, we know they have different abilities and competencies. Don’t we? Unfortunately many parents are under the illusion that sending children to boarding houses will limit students’ propensities for some of these time-eaters . What  they seem to  forget is that the old dedicated boarding housemasters they knew in their days at school have faded away and that only a few of those left can be compared with the old masters. These days we have those who want to be bribed by parents for “taking care of their children” or “for organizing extra classes” for them. So what needs to be done?"

2,WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? STUDENTS SHOULD SPEND MORE HOURS IN SCHOOL FOR WELL-REGULATED REMEDIAL WORK AND NOT JUST "EXTRA LESSONS"

What needs to be done is that schools must  plan and implement more remedial and after-school academic enhancement programs for students…students should  stay longer in their classrooms with less brain-tasking but interesting programs later in the day when their capacity to concentrate or  assimilate might have been reduced…but  no matter what their situation is they will be better off staying a bit longer in classrooms  than going home at 2pm as day students or their dormitories as boarding students…particularly,parents or school administrators might wish to look  closely at  what is shown below.