ADEDOYIN cautions Govt against Reopening of schools, religious centres.
Adedoyin Cautions Govt Against Reopening Schools Religious Centres
Dr. Rahmon Adedoyin
Renowned educationist and the Chancellor and proprietor of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Ife North Local Government, His Royal Eminence, Dr. AbdulRahaman Adegoke Adedoyin has cautioned the government against the reopening of schools, churches, mosques and other like gatherings until a permanent solution has been found to the problem of COVID-19.
Dr Adedoyin who was reacting to calls by numerous calls by Nigerians on the government to lift the ban on schools and religious gatherings noted that reopening schools and religious gatherings without having found a cure or vaccine for the Corona virus would be like the country sitting on a keg of gun powder and may have serious implication on the citizens whose lives the government should protect.
According to him, even with the shutting down of the schools and religious centres, the figures being released daily by the National Centre for Disease Control indicated that the number of infected persons is on the rise with highest number of daily discovered cases recorded last Saturday.
Dr Adedoyin noted that there are certain posers to be answered by teachers, school owners, parents as well as those at the helms of affairs before the thought of opening schools could emanate.
According to him, teachers should ask themselves if they are ready to unnecessarily put themselves at risk in their daily interactions with students while teaching and even while marking scripts without any risk allowance or compensation to their families in case they die from contracting Covid-19 from work even as their families are also in danger of contracting d virus from them.
He also raised some challenges likely to be faced by school owners, if schools were to be reopened as being clamoured for. These include: what approaches would adopted, if it was discovered that a student shows COVID-19 symptoms during learning, are they to quarantine the teachers, the whole class or the whole school? How often should the temperature of teachers and students be tested? How easy will it be to test the whole school before lessons? Is the teaching and learning going to continue if the school runs out of sanitizer? And if the teacher is in self-quarantine, who will take his/her course load?
Dr Adedoyin noted that parents should also be faced with the fear that the children could bring the dreaded COVID-19 home from school and should therefore consider if education is of higher priority to them than their children’s lives.
He also noted that responsible authorities should also consider if all schools have enough facilities like classrooms, desks, hostel accommodation, beds and beddings to effectively maintain social distancing in all schools and whether they are ready to employ more teachers since the teacher to pupil ratio will decrease.
He reminded the government that COVID -19 is spread by air and contact which is inevitable if the government decides to reopen educational and religious institutions adding that while the people continued to pray and hope for the best, the government should focus its attention on research aimed finding either a cure or a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Rahmon Adedoyin
Renowned educationist and the Chancellor and proprietor of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Ife North Local Government, His Royal Eminence, Dr. AbdulRahaman Adegoke Adedoyin has cautioned the government against the reopening of schools, churches, mosques and other like gatherings until a permanent solution has been found to the problem of COVID-19.
Dr Adedoyin who was reacting to calls by numerous calls by Nigerians on the government to lift the ban on schools and religious gatherings noted that reopening schools and religious gatherings without having found a cure or vaccine for the Corona virus would be like the country sitting on a keg of gun powder and may have serious implication on the citizens whose lives the government should protect.
According to him, even with the shutting down of the schools and religious centres, the figures being released daily by the National Centre for Disease Control indicated that the number of infected persons is on the rise with highest number of daily discovered cases recorded last Saturday.
Dr Adedoyin noted that there are certain posers to be answered by teachers, school owners, parents as well as those at the helms of affairs before the thought of opening schools could emanate.
According to him, teachers should ask themselves if they are ready to unnecessarily put themselves at risk in their daily interactions with students while teaching and even while marking scripts without any risk allowance or compensation to their families in case they die from contracting Covid-19 from work even as their families are also in danger of contracting d virus from them.
He also raised some challenges likely to be faced by school owners, if schools were to be reopened as being clamoured for. These include: what approaches would adopted, if it was discovered that a student shows COVID-19 symptoms during learning, are they to quarantine the teachers, the whole class or the whole school? How often should the temperature of teachers and students be tested? How easy will it be to test the whole school before lessons? Is the teaching and learning going to continue if the school runs out of sanitizer? And if the teacher is in self-quarantine, who will take his/her course load?
Dr Adedoyin noted that parents should also be faced with the fear that the children could bring the dreaded COVID-19 home from school and should therefore consider if education is of higher priority to them than their children’s lives.
He also noted that responsible authorities should also consider if all schools have enough facilities like classrooms, desks, hostel accommodation, beds and beddings to effectively maintain social distancing in all schools and whether they are ready to employ more teachers since the teacher to pupil ratio will decrease.
He reminded the government that COVID -19 is spread by air and contact which is inevitable if the government decides to reopen educational and religious institutions adding that while the people continued to pray and hope for the best, the government should focus its attention on research aimed finding either a cure or a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
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