Is this an islamic school?

I remember as far back as 1982 it was d same state of despair dat dis same school was.back in d days when we had to sit on d floor until like 85 when one of d then GOC in dalet barracks in kaduna helped with desk.its a sorry state that the goverment of our time has allow rot n decay to stay for too long

delta state is one hell of a state where anyone gets away wit anyting becos they tink they are above d law.check well and u will find out that the refurbishin of dat school has been awarded to one crook who does not give a f..k if the students are humans or not.

deesnipes: This is so shameful. But can't d parents take their kids to other schools or is d school free?

Please wait so i can bring a bucket to collect it so u can 'cry me a river'.

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Come to think of it, the secondary school (i.e Army Day Sec Sch) also located in the barrack is nothing to write home about. Very poor infrastructure and no lab for science oriented student. Just teaching them theory.

opens mouth and sings...

Command Childrens School, Yaba
School of tomorrow's leaders
Premier childrens school in Nigeria
Found in the year ninety sixty six
Our alma mata, alma mata
will forever be our pride

My God thinks are gettin worse by every single day. I attend Army children sch though it was in the early 80(s) then a student has to him or her self a lone table and chair, well furnish classrooms with any facility you could think about. This was Army children sch Akin's barrack Calabar. This was a school that well-place individuals in society brink their ward or children to. I was opportune to be in the same class with children of the elite, serving commissioners, directors, generals, doctors, politicians etc. I cry and weep for these generation. May God show us his love, grace and mercy. Amen

Kindly show this picture to Truckpusher.

When NID complain, he will say it is bad belle.

D school does not belong to d army. It belongs to d Delta State Government. It is only located within the barracks. Sad though. This should not be happening in my state.

you are right. Army children schools belong to STATE GOVERNMENTS and not the army. a lot of us are ignorant in this country. please let us be updating ourselves, including me

:And the soldiers are losing their lives fighting at home and abroad.

Yomieluv: Is this an islamic school?

May your kettle not boil. May your axe not cut. May you stand on weak legs for a very long time. Amen.

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Some of you dont know how this things work. The school in question is resident in the barracks, called Army children school but it is not owned by the Army. It is owned and runned by the Local Govt/Sate. So what has happened to all the derivation money going to that state and the UBEC money to that state. The schools owned by the army are called Command Children Schools. They are tact and purely administered by the Army. There staff are MOD staff. I'm priviledged to have attended Command Children School Ribadu Cant KAduna. So I can Say boldly that it does not belong to the Army.

W ether it belongs to the Army,State,Local Government, community that should not matter, you people are just trying to make excuses for the incompetence of whoever owns the School.

See this school in ogun state too. Can't remember the name now

And the GOC and Commandant and otherarmy officers at the Effurrun Amy Barracks will go about in luxurious cars....Peugeot 408, 508. This is supposed to be a scholl for the children of the soldiers among others. Just ask when last any official of the Army went on an inspection visit to that school. But let them hear the Chief of Army staff is on his way to the school tomorrow, furniture will be installed overnight.

The teachers in this particular school ride around in Jeeps n don't even come to teach leaving all the work to the Corpers.

amopumpin :
The teachers in this particular school ride around in Jeeps n don't even come to teach leaving all the work to the Corpers.

I agree with you cos thats where i did my PPA.

Maxymilliano: Generally lethargic towards anything academic (perhaps understandably so): children in this school located in the heart of 3 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, lack the most basic of infrastructure required for effective learning. Furniture.

And the enthusiasm they lack naturally by the nature of their circumstance, the teachers seem to want to instill by rote.

Beside the rickety desk of each teacher is a bunch of canes with which they hope to ‘tame’ the children. This is the story of children at the Army Children Primary School, Effurun, Ovwie Local Government Area of Delta State.

Education psychologists believe that the state of an environment determines the kind of behavioural pattern exhibited by occupants of that environment. It is even more true of learning environments!

The school, comprising Schools 1 to 4, was obviously well-conceived when it was founded. It has well mapped-out space both for academic and co-curricular activities.

And it boasts of hundreds of pupils who exhibit some level of good breeding, but the little sense of humanity and dignity that may be left in them is fast wearing off – not thanks to the deplorable state of the school’s facilities.

For the first time in the history of Delta State, there is a government headed by a medical doctor who is deploying the best hands available to man strategic ministries, including education; but the Army Children’s Primary School, Effurun, sticks out like a sore thumb and seems to make mockery of those efforts so far made to arrest the decay in the sector.

In Delta State today, there are two commissioners of education – one in charge of basic education and the other, tertiary education. The division of labour is to ensure that no stone is left unturned in addressing the rot in the sector.

But while history is being made both in the health and even education sectors with the refurbishment of old buildings and the construction of new ones, the recruitment of medical doctors and teachers, it is still curious how a basic school with so many children could escape the attention of government and allowed to get to such a sorry state.

The four schools: Schools 1, 2, 3 and 4, are in a very bad state. In Primary 1, all the pupils take lessons sitting on the floor. At School 3, the roofs leak when it rains.

When Saturday Tribune visited the school, the water left on the roof by the January rain was still dripping.The security gate hangs on precariously, about to fall off. The head teacher in School 4, for lack of office space, now sits in an open veranda.

Because of the poor state of the toilet facility, pupils defecate in a nearby bush or deposit their waste in a nylon bag and fling it across into the bush. Teachers, Saturday Tribune was told, ease themselves in soldiers’ quartersor sneak into and use toilets in banks located in Effurun roundabout.

Teachers’ desks are rickety, and pupils trek, mostly barefoot and usually in a noisy group, to fetch water from the soldiers’ quarters – much to the chagrin of the officers. Sometimes they go to faraway brooks.

Obviously embarrassed by what they saw, some National Youth Service Corps members, who are said to be about passing out, last week rallied round to drill a borehole for the school.

“The corpers said they usually saw pupils going to soldiers’ quarters to fetch water to drink or even cross the expressway to get water in brooks. They said they wanted to help the children by sinking a borehole in the school. You can see how far they have gone about it,” one of the teachers, who conducted Saturday Tribune round the school, said.

Decrying the state of the school, one of the female teachers said: “We are tired of complaining. Look at the roof of my class.
Look at the desk I use as a teacher. Look at the windows, patched with planks! Just look at the falling ceilings as a result of leaking roofs. It’s a hell managing these pupils of over70 in my class.”

At School 4, said to have been inaugurated bythe James Onanefe Ibori administration, the experience was more pathetic. From the entrance of the school, one could see some iron sheets have been blown off, leaving the roof bare.

The teachers, numbering less than 20, are saddled with the responsibility of managing not fewer than 600 pupils, according to one ofthe teachers. In fact, their rickety desks are ridiculously positioned amid the pupils who swarm around them like bees.

It was gathered that some of them who could no longer bear the pain of standing or sitting on windows went to purchase plastic tables and chairs for themselves!

At the Army Children School, some classes have up to 120 pupils to a teacher. When asked why it is so given that there are some empty classes, one of the teachers mentioned the lack of adequate desks and chairs for pupils, hence the need to merge classes. But the merging notwithstanding, pupils still sit on bare floor.

This harsh teaching and learning environmentof course has had its effects both on teachers and on pupils. While it has produced in teachers aggression, loss of motivation and its subsequent low efficiency, it has produced in the children apathy, truancy, insolence and mass action to disobey teachers.

Many of the pupils complained of ants’ sting, coldness of the floor and their general lack of interest each time they remembered they had to attend school.

The teachers said their writing ability had been affected.
Speaking with Saturday Tribune, another male teacher wondered: “How can they (pupils) write well when they do the writing on bare floor? We are running the school on our own. The PTA (Parent Teacher Association) is not doing anything.
I feel very bad. The children are usually noisy and uncontrollable when lessons are going on because they are not comfortable. I had about 50 in my class and another 50 were added (from another merged class) to mine for lack of desks for the pupils.”

When asked if the pupils were able to assimilate during class activities, a female teacher said: “We are trying to help them.
Their sheer number and no furniture to sit on are not encouraging. Because of this, some of them now absent from school.

Some of their writings are also bad, because of the inconvenience of sitting down on bare floor. If they are well seated and the classes are well arranged, their handwriting will become better.”

While decrying the three-legged chairs being used by some of them, the female teacher called for help from the Government Emmanuel Uduaghan administration to renovate the building and equip the classes.

A female teacher, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said “During the raining season, we literally wade through water in the classrooms. The roofs are bad.
When it rains, we pack the pupils and we stay on one corner of the classes until it subsides. Even after rain, water will still continue to drip from the ceiling on us. The pupils are drenched and with water dripping from their uniforms.

Sometimes when the rains persist for long, wefind it difficult using the classes or even coming to school because the classes would have been flooded.”

When Saturday Tribune attempted to get comments on Wednesday, the Commissioner for Primary Education, Professor Patrick Mouboghare, did not respond to a message sent to his mobile phone.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/4895-army-children-school-where-pupils-sit-on-bare-floor

it is sad though,it is not only in nigeria, cnn made a documentary on this same issue in india

No iota of respect for d educational sector. Smh