The disruption to education caused by poor learning facilities at Tudun Fulani special primary school conditions has made learning a nightmare.
Tudun Fulani special primary school is a government-approved public primary education centre where pupils have trained academically, morally and otherwise.
The lack of inadequate learning facilities and materials, poor sanitation facilities makes learning a far cry for many children in Tudun Fulani special primary school.
In this special primary school, a massive dumpsite is juxtaposed with the learning environment and a hazardous smell oozing from the dumpsite; students are made to learn in this environment irrespective of the health implications.
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As seen by a Daily News24 reporter who went undercover to unravel the decay in the quality of education in the special primary school, the school’s toilets have been under lock and key for more than six years, leaving the pupils to answer the call of nature openly behind their classes or in the massive waste beside the school.
Tudun Fulani Special primary school is void of fencing, which puts them in a vulnerable situation. Pupils sit on the bare floor while learning. While some students have books, some have to beg their colleagues for a sheet of paper to write notes.
While speaking to Daily News24, a school staff revealed that, often, monies are always budgeted for the development of the school, but the school keeps diminishing day by day. “Huge monies are always budgeted for the development of the school, but after seeing the blueprint, the story ends there.
“Most of the children don’t know how quality education feels like. They struggle to learn daily, but as it seems, they have to make do with what they currently have.” The Staff said as he pleaded anonymity.
Despite efforts of the Kano state government to improve the quality of education in the state by distributing 880m for the renovation of schools in the state, Tudun Fulani special primary school is yet to be renovated.
According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), one in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria. Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory, about 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school.
Getting out-of-school children back into education poses a massive challenge. Only 61 per cent of 6-11 year-olds regularly attend primary school and only 35.6 per cent of children aged 36-59 months receive early childhood education. In the north of the country, the picture is even bleaker, with a net attendance rate of 53 per cent.
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