Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has expressed dissatisfaction on the disinterest of some students towards learning before the reopening of schools.

In a statement titled ‘School resumption: LASG tours public, private schools to monitor compliance,’ she stated that many students had already lost interest in learning and taken up menial jobs such as bus conductors, mechanics  and hawking during school closure.

The commissioner who paid an unscheduled visit to some schools in the state in order to ensure school managements, teachers and their students comply with the COVID-19 protocols expressed her satisfaction with the level of the schools’ obedience to the protocols.  

She added that the government of the state is concerned about the safety of the students and their teachers.

However, the commissioner has described the nonchalance of some students towards academics as “detrimental to their growth.”      

She said “Many have already been put to work, doing jobs like mechanic, bus conductor, hawking on the streets, thereby exposing themselves to societal ills rather than being in schools which is a safer environment,” noting that the reopening of schools has been a difficult decision amidst the COVID-19 second wave.