From Fear to Familiarity: The Decline of Teacher Authority in Nigeria

The teaching profession is one of the most important professions in the world because they made it possible for people to become what they are; there can't be doctors, engineers, and the like without the help of a Teacher.

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Unfortunately, they are not well compensated for their effort, and to make it worse, they made it so hard for them to impart the knowledge to kids.

Sometime around the year 2018, there was a new law that prohibited teachers from using a cane on their pupils/students. I was a teacher at that time, not because the salary was tempting but because I loved imparting knowledge to the students, and I love it when the parents are happy with my work in helping their children.

Not using a cane was the height for me, not because I flogged my pupils anyhow, but the presence of the cane alone put the fear in them that they need to behave themselves, the moment it gt banned, many teachers lost their grip on their students, and they became more defiant, it was not the same in my case cos I didn't follw the rules, I still use cane when necessary until I quit teaching.

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During my time in primary school, I feared my class teacher because she was a disciplinarian and didn't spare the rod when she teaches and we didn't understand. When playing outside, and someone tells me my teacher is passing, I disappear within a few seconds, unlike now, when students don't care; they don't even respect their teachers in school, let alone outside.

A lot has gone wrong in the educational sector, our government keeps trying to imitate the western cuture, forgetting we are a different breed, even sme nigerians refuse to raise their kids abroad for fear of them getting spoiled, yet our government still try to imitate that same thing some of our people try to avoid.

At this point, we are now. If I see my student misbehaving outside, I won't interfere cos my discipline ends in the school; the parents are to take care of their children when they are at home.

The way it is designed now, most parents don't like it when teachers discipline their children, and we see them coming to school to complain, with some going to the extreme of fighting or beating the teacher involve, imagine disciplining the child of such a parent outside the school premises; that is like stepping on the tail of a snake.

School has lost its credibility the moment we started to copy the western culture, our government didn't copy how the foreign countries support their jobless citizens, their old citizens that could not work anymore with money, their 24/7 electricity, their tight security but it is those baseless things like tax and others they will always imitate, what a country I was born into!

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