An educationist, Mrs. Folakemi Olasanya, has called for the review of teachers’ salaries across all levels to enable them deliver on quality education.
Olasanya, also the Director, New World Emerald International School, made the call while speaking during the school’s 2024 End of Year Production/Graduation Ceremony in Abuja on Saturday.
She said that teachers’ inadequate take home pay had contributed to the low teaching quality in schools.
The director also noted that a lot of good teachers had left the country for better opportunities and some withdrawing their services from the profession.
She appealed to the government to review the salaries of teachers to upgrade their level so that they could offer service with passion, and provide quality education to the young ones.
According to her, car benefits, housing benefits must be considered to uplift their status.
“In Nigeria, teachers are being looked down upon and they are not being put in the place of people that train every aspect.
“We have our teachers being the mother of all professions that we have in Nigeria but they are not giving their regards.
”In some other countries, they are being paid the highest, exempted from paying taxes, they have some benefits they give to them but in Nigeria they don’t give any accolade to teachers .
“We want our country to switch and start respecting our teachers . If they are paid N500,000 as minimum wage, it is not too much because we know what is happening in the society today,” she said.
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