ARE PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS MODERN SLAVES IN NIGERIA

As a classroom teacher myself, I think teaching in Nigeria is a new form of slavery. Teachers in Nigeria are nothing but slaves. A teacher in Nigeria is nothing but a glorified slave who carriers the whole burden of Nation building on his or her shoulder with a perennial empty stomach.

If you happen to find yourself in the teaching profession whether Intentionally or accidentally, just know that you are nothing but a dignified slave who earns pittance to keep surviving so you don't die of hunger and starvation.

Don't tell me you are teaching out of passion. Passion is not food. Your stomach does not feed on passion. Your body does not wear passion instead it wears fashion to the classroom.

Your family, children, wife cannot feed on passion - passion doesn't pay bills. Passion is never a legal tender.
So save yourself that deceitful doctrine of passion they have used to bamboozled your minds as private school teachers.

If teacher are nation builders, why are they the lowest paid in Nigeria?

If teachers are truly mind builders, why is it that a house builder or bricklayer earns more money than a classroom teacher who is a bsc holder?

Let's not be hypocrites here, let's call a spade a spade - we can't keep paying peanuts to teachers and expect hungry teachers not to produce angry students who will become menace to the society.

We can't keep enslaving teachers with meager salaries and expect them to produce mega minds that would transform the society.

If teachers are these useful we should not only treasure them in words but in our actions and in deeds. Pay teachers what they deserve! Accord them the respect and honor they deserve.

The society cannot keep treating and paying teachers as slaves and expect them not to produce students after their kinds. Good morning

By James Patrick
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