The State Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, has called on communities in the state to maximally support school heads in their areas for the interest of their children.
Professor Chuma-Udeh made the call while speaking to journalists in Awka.
Commissioner Chuma-Udeh, who emphasized on the need for cordial relationship between communities and school heads, implored communities to learn to support and respect teachers, schools in their areas, its environment and boundaries as it is where the lives of their children, who are the future of the communities’ stream from.
While warning communities against any form of encroachment into school compounds, Professor Chuma-Udeh reminded them that schools in the state belong to the government and as such will not tolerate any illegal act from anyone or group.
Describing communities as the original owners of the schools, Professor Chuma-Udeh encouraged school heads and teachers to partner host communities for the progress and development of the schools.
She warned school heads against imposition of illegal fees of any kind on students, an act she described as a crime and unacceptable to the present administration of Professor Chukwuma Soludo.
The state’s education boss, who noted that Parents and Teachers Association, PTA, levy must be enforced with the consent of parents, warned that no school head has the right to impose a PTA fee on the students, as anyone cut in such act will be dealt with.
Commissioner Chuma-Udeh, also used the opportunity to restate the commitment of the Professor Soludo Government towards repositioning the state’s education sector to meet up with the global standard.
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