Methodist College Uzuakoli, Abia state

SeeWahala:
We cut grass in my sec school. From jss1 to ss3 in the 1990's NNSS. The commandant will even tell your own father to buy the hoe, rake and cutlass and keep for you prior to resumption day.

You must cut grass until you're about to write waec even if dem born you well dem no born ya papa well so him own cancel your own.

NNSS Abeokuta during My Days, You will cut Blister will come out, U will still use the hand and cut while being beaten for being too slow in cutting..

Normal things.

If it's only this one we did in St Thomas's it would have been better. They turned us to farmers. I dug ridge for the first time in my life there.

chatinent:
Which school you attended did this?

Back then if I handle cutlass, just stand back and watch the grass fly in the air. You wouldn't see me, just grass flying. My hand chop blister taya.
That school is still the biggest FENCED compound I have ever stood in. It would swallow 7 stadiums and drink water on top.

chukkystar:
NNSS Abeokuta during My Days, You will cut Blister will come out, U will still use the hand and cut while being beaten for being too slow in cutting..

I remember my time at NNSS Abeokuta although I did not finish there. My set graduated in 2007

Vinnie2000:


Abegii,

Let children do some form of Labour.😏😒

Dat's why most of our Kids/Teenagers these Days are very LAZY and empty.

They Only know how to do Tiktok videos, skits and watch porn in their phones.

Yes I get you, but these days no matter what work u give to a kid as punishment or whatsoever, who's going to be carried away will be carried away (social media or not)

They're other forms of punishment in school, other than cutting the grass. Grasses are supposed to be mowed, but I guess we love foreign culture and yet never bothered to adopt it.

Government College Bida, Niger State. Very much used to this back then.

enemyofprogress:
I preferred this to maths, English, chemistry, biology, physics, Geography and all those useless subjects

U belong to the village. Lol

9jaBloke:
MCA

We did all kinds of manual labour
Cutting grass
Carrying Sand, gravel, blocks
Fetching water
etc etc

If our parents only knew what we were put through in their absence 😢

What you Don't Know....is that:
That Process Has Contributed to your Progress in Life now.
It has helped you toughen up to face any Adversity in life and become victorious.
It was essential

These days...when upcoming children just face a little Hardship....they just commit suicide...
why?
They are not mentally Tough. Parents have painted a Life of Roses to them,,, so they cannot easily survive on their own when Reality sets in!

marlow1962:


They're other forms of punishment in school, other than cutting the grass. Grasses are supposed to be mowed, but I guess we love foreign culture and yet never bothered to adopt it.

Abeg rest. Even your white men know how to get their hands dirty when it is time.

Face it! we are in the part of the world where we SOMETIMES have to do things manually and these activities prepare you for some conditions and situations you MAY BE faced with in the future. For instance, Not everyone will build a house in Ikoyi. So what happens when you find yourself living in a place where the grass grows around you or you are in NYSC and posted to a bushy place? You wait for lawn mower right?
There are over 2,000 public schools in Nigeria, you want to buy lawn mowers for them? how many per school? What about maintenance? Abeg rest.
What about when you travel to the village and you see your cousins helping in the farm? You will stand and wait for lawn mower right? Get real abeg.
I be confirmed rocking city guy but if we enter bush, my chance of survival is high because of the experiences in my life.
I thank God for the experience.

chatinent:
Which school you attended did this?

It's a normal thing jare

It's another way of training children.

I support it

I did that shit between 23 to 27 years ago.

chatinent:
Which school you attended did this?

Okeho iganna grammar school from JSS1 to SS2

That time, life sweet ooooo

The ethos some of them learned is what helped them to turn out to be disciplined,focused and enterprising personalities. Ever ask yourself why our present day youths are unruly and indisciplined.

Wondering, 🤔

Who should then cut the grass in these public schools whose lands are usually a minimum of 3-5plots? The teachers?

You should blame the system that's intentionally set up not to work. Schools have no allocations to maintain their existing facilities. They are left to fend for themselves and live off generous donations from parents and corporate institutions.

illicit:
Child Labour

It's exploitative culture

MaziObinnaokija:
those ones are happy to cut the grass than to sidon in class

You get the gist... That's me every Wednesday

AL1ENWARE:
This is just so wrong. All in the name of punishment. Is this not abuse of pupils?

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Thank you.

That wasn't punishment, it was sanitary day.

It was in the year 1992-1997 then, at Annunciation Catholic College Irrua in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State.
It's labour like this that made us strong men.

Mikeangelo0433:
I remember my time at NNSS Abeokuta although I did not finish there. My set graduated in 2007

Ur set was 13th set. Mine graduated 2006 12th set

chatinent:
Which school you attended did this?

In my school I was Labour prefect from SS1 to SS3, I always use my head when giving out portions to students, because I was very small then.

chukkystar:
Ur set was 13th set. Mine graduated 2006 12th set

Wow I left the school in JSS 2 because of the pressure from my mum on my dad to change my school. She claimed her mind is not always at rest whenever I was away at NNSS Abeokuta but I still remember some guys from your set particularly the one's whom we attended same primary school together.

o123456789:
In my school I was Labour prefect from SS1 to SS3, I always use my head when giving out portions to students, because I was very small then.

Make dem no rearrange you

superCleanworks:


Back then if I handle cutlass, just stand back and watch the grass fly in the air. You wouldn't see me, just grass flying. My hand chop blister taya.
That school is still the biggest FENCED compound I have ever stood in. It would swallow 7 stadiums and drink water on top.

Omo..your use of figures of speech are lit.

Multiversed:




I did this during my high school days. Sometimes we are told by the school authorities to pick papers and dirts on the ground, Afterall we were the ones who lit the ground with the dirts. It's very common in most public schools. Public school life na rugged life.

The funny thing is it somehow helped me because It contributed to my habit of being a neat freak today. I can pick up the tiniest of dirt in my room whenever I notice it.

High school days? Rich kids

illicit:
Child Labour

It's exploitative culture

Na lie.
I took the responsibility of cutting the grass around our home because I was taught to do it in school.

Building rafters boots for annual interhouse sport. Omo no be small wahala o.

I used to do it during my time