The hijab versus choir robe crisis in Osun school
THE recent disruption which took place at the Baptist High School, Iwo, in Osun State, was, indeed, a show of shame.
A reasonably-thinking person would pause to know what the problem is with schools in Osun, and particularly, the Baptist High School in Iwo.
It would be recalled that it was this same school in Iwo that caused confusion some months ago. The preponderance of this school’s capacity to stir up confusion has shown that there are disgruntled political elements in the state who are fuelling this crisis.
As an interested observer and a stakeholder in the state, I ruminated on the issue and came up with some posers.
There are over 3,000 schools in Osun, can one errant school, out of this whole lot, be a representation of all the schools?
Can anything done by this school be taken as the true state of affairs in the state’s education sector? Of the 3,000 students in the school, about 90 students were involved in this indiscipline. Does this number represent the majority?
Why did this school choose to be different, constituting impediment against the progress and development of the education sector in the state?
Will it, therefore, be accurate to conclude that the school re-classification system is unpopular because of what this school is being used for?
The conclusion is that, one out of 3,000 schools is an insignificant trait to warrant the kind of bedlam we get in the media as a result of the crisis.
There is obviously a calculated attempt by certain anti-people interest groups bent on thwarting the progress being recorded in the state.
What one sees here is an ochestrated move to underplay the alternative perspectives in governance, which the Osun example represents.
AbdulFatah Adekunle Owolabi,
Lagos.
kunleowolabi17@yahoo.com
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