The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced that both public and private schools will resume on August 3, 2020, after over 3 months of being shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This is in line with the recent pronouncement by the Federal Government,
This was disclosed by the Governor while giving a situation report on COVID-19 at Lagos House Marina on July 3, 2020.
The governor said that the resumption is only for pupils and students in graduating classes, that is Primary 6, JSS 3, and SSS 3 who are preparing for exams.
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He said other schools will remain closed and should continue with the online studies.
He said that pupils in primary schools and junior secondary schools 3 students will resume school a week or 2 weeks after the senior secondary school 3 students would have resumed. The governor also added that this only applies to day schools for both public and private as boarding schools will remain shut.
According to the Governor, ‘’Tertiary institutions will remain closed. We continue to support online teaching during this period. However, students in the transitional classes who have mandatory public examinations ahead of them will be permitted to resume for revision classes and examinations. The commencement date for this will be from Monday, August 3rd.’’
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‘’All educational establishments are to follow the guidelines for the reopening. We just finished a very serious meeting with stakeholders in the educational sector for the reopening. SS3 and Tech 3 students are to start, for JSS3 and primary 6, they will wait for about a week or 2 before resumption.’’
‘’The permitted opening will be for only day schooling. No boarding activities are permitted during this time. School authorities are expected to prepare well from now till August 3’’
It can be recalled that the federal government had on Monday, June 29, 2020, announced that pupils and students in graduating classes were free to reopen while also maintaining the safety measures that had been outlined by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19.
well but for the ss3 why can’t they stay in the hostel i mean you said it yourself they are the graduating class and so therefore have to stay in the hostel because they need time to read and not be distureb by their younger ones not everyone wants to be that one that didn’t do well at all in an external exam and you said no body should move about but now you are saying no boarding school just day school i don’t understand is it not better for the ss3 to stay in their boarding house than to be coming from their house everyday but thank you very much the date is nice
Yes oooo I agree with your
Lets them just do the exam,then all classes will resume next year
Some school is now going above the time the state and the federal government has them to close, some private school in ipaja Ayobo lcda in akowojo area have started closing by 5pm, believing that there in control of there school…I hope our education quality assurance in Lagos should take a step and look into it. I don’t want to mention names, but I have my fate about this..
Some school is now going above the time the state and the federal government has them to close, some private school in ipaja Ayobo lcda in akowojo area have started closing by 5pm, believing that there in control of there school…I hope our education quality assurance in Lagos should take a step and look into it. I don’t want to mention names, but I have my fate about this..