No more automatic promotion, Ondo govt tells primary school teachers

Tamarauemi Ebimini

Ondo State Government has cancelled automatic promotion for teachers in it’s public primary schools, across the state.

Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Rt Hon Victor Olabimtan, said that the state government was not happy with the level of performance of the pupils having provided enabling environment for good performance.

Consequently, Olabimtan said that the promotion of teachers would henceforth will be based on the academic performance of students.

Speaking during an interactive session with the Education Secretaries from the 18 Local Government Areas of the State, in Akure, he said that “Consequently from the next year no teacher will be promoted to the next grade levels especially from 13 and above without empirical evidence that the wards under him or her performed very well in their examinations.

Olabimtan said the State Government “cannot continue to pretend as if all is well with the system, lay by, and gloss over the current performance of pupils in Public Schools for a State in which education is its main industry.

The chairman  said the state government would not hesitate to deal with anybody, no matter how highly placed, trying to sabotage the established high-performance standard in education the State is known for.

According to him “all promotions, especially from grade 13 and above would be subjected to performance evaluation by the Board and the Ministry of Education Science and Technology.

Olabimtan said that from the beginning of the new academic session, the Board is going to invigorate its monitoring and supervisory mechanism by paying unscheduled visits to all the schools in the State to ensure teachers are in classes doing what they were employed to do.

The Chairman also warned teachers who are in the habit of absconding duties or engaging in selling and buying during school sessions to desist because anybody caught in the act will face the music.