Quote from: Sticky Bomb on September 02, 2025, 10:43:36 AM

Quote from: Finebone on August 25, 2025, 06:21:29 PM

Quote from: Obiene12 on August 24, 2025, 11:01:19 PM

I love what the governors of those two states did.Schools have turned that graduation ceremony into another way of extorting money from parents. Parents pay heavily for this event. As i write this,i am a victim of this intentional act from the proprietor of the school my children attend. Soon other states will enact same law in their various states abolishing that exploitation act . It's so annoying, after you register your child or children with huge amount of money yet at the end of the term you are expected to pay another huge amount of money again for the end of term graduation party.

I don't know how true is this but if it's actually true, then it's definitely a step in the right direction because these schools have taken it as a harbit to use graduation ceremony to milk parents of their hard earned money.
And one thing I have noticed about all this is that it is being carried out mostly by small private schools the most, not even recognized ones, that's why poor people or average income earners are being hit the most by this unprofessionalism by this schools, so it's a welcome development and a step i am really in support of if it's true.

Yes t is true, the financial burden on these parents are just do heartbreaking, I can imagine a situation whereby a parent has 4 children in the same school and two graduating, the two not graduating pays for the party and the two graduating pays even more for the graduating materials and gowns. Those schools would never allow the siblings in the same graduating class to purchase one item in a bid to lessen the burden on parents or even give parents with more wards a discount and it has been a problem right from when I was a small boy.

Here is your link to confirm the authenticity of this implementation in Benue state

No one is saying there shouldn't graduation ceremonies in our schools but it shouldn't be used as an avenue to extort money from parents and guardians or these kids, so many of went through the same system as kids but we never experienced such but in this modern times it has become something else where parents of these kids would be asked to pay extravagant or should I say outrageous amount of money for kids in nursery/primary all in the name of graduation, the government did the right thing but I would rather want to government to introduce some new policies to that effect that would control the excesses of these Schools rather stoping them entirely.