Mimiko's government spends 355M Naira: The Model of shallow thinking...

"The model primary school will also accommodate 1000 pupils on completion, have a

computer room, music room, art gallery, demonstration farm and sports centre"

Shortsighted-ness!

And a brazen propensity to spend and spend, rather,  throw money at problems, eyes closed, rationalizing if not delusional,  that the problems will disappear. 

Or put in another way wishful thinking.

There are too many levels  on which this report is flawed; I mean ridiculous.

First, the proposed school is supposedly named “Caring Heart Mega Primary School ” - who in the world thought that out ? 

Caring Heart ? Shocking!

Then there is the small matter of that Mega there.

Its almost a mega-disgrace. Where else in the world do you get a school, named as a function of its size ?  or its intended size by the way...

Oxford University - one of Britain's elite and historically rooted university is almost synonymous with the town of Oxford,the whole town, but they have not gone as to rebrand to Oxford town university.

And when Caring heart grows old, It will play host to 1000 young kids, at a time?

I am not sure of the kind of primary schools the governor attended in his time, but there was a reason educationists of old partitioned schools into classes  so you had  Class A, Class B, Class C at a particular level. 

It is quite simple, the more students you cramp into a class, and by extension a school, the lesser qualitative attention/time  their teachers/tutors are able to distribute for them, and their cause as a collection.

Even as individuals, it becomes harder.The net effect is, they get educated,  but they get sub-quality education.

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Governor Mimiko, while rationalising what appears a mega-embarrassment of an idea:

"...said his administration decided to construct modern day school buildings in the state because public school system was gradually going into a state of irrelevance.

Therein, you begin to see understand the flawed thinking. It's almost so shallow to disappoint.

There was a time in Akure, that a public funded, public managed Alagbaka Nursery and Primary school  was king.

The physical structures are still there few metres from the Ondo state house of assembly, the teachers are most probably there.

You begin to wonder what stops this government, from forking out a team of thinkers - and there are supposed plenty of them littered across ministries, to analyse the extent of decay in so called public-school-systems ?

More importantly,   why has governor Mimiko not sought to understand the vectors, and realities that are pushing so called public school system into irrelevance ?

And if it is true that they -public schools  are largely irrelevant, then one is left to presume governor Mimiko is about to spend a whooping =N=400M on a private alternative that will then no longer be public ? 

It does not make sense. Its trickery.

No mention is made of how they will be taught, what they will be taught, and how that will be different from what obtains already in the now fading acts of so called public school systems  ?

Hear is the clue: 

"“In the education sector, our administration policy is informed by extant realities that are being projected into the foreseeable future."

That foreseeable future is costing a minimum of N355, in the making of a caring heart.  One wonders if the makers of this heart ever factored in the the external variables that lead to cardiac arrests, even for the most caring of hearts...

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