The Ogun State chapter of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) at the weekend in Abeokuta, the state capital embarked on a protest ahead of today's Junior School Certificate Examination.
The grouse of the school proprietors was the intermittent interruption in the current academic session. They therefore asked that the scheduled examination should be postponed to a more convenient date.
The association's president, Basirat Alimi, threatened that the association would boycott the examination if the government went ahead with the planned date, arguing that the National Examination Council - Junior School Certificate Examination (NECO- JSCE) clashed with the proposed Ogun State JSCE.
Ms Alimi noted that since the academic session ends in July, such an examination cannot come up earlier than July.
"The present academic session had been interrupted by reasons of strike, voters' registration exercise, the just concluded election and the extended holiday,' she said. ‘The scheduled examination, if allowed to commence, implies testing students on the scheme of work yet to be covered by schools in Ogun State.
Moreso, the released time-table for Ogun State JSCE exam is loaded, with four subjects starting from 8am through 5pm per day, added to NECO's JSCE time-table, making a total of six subjects per day for the students. The protesters also alleged that the government had levied students in public secondary schools in the state N100 each for the 2011/2012 academic session for the examination.
But the state commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Yemi Akinwonmi, faulted the action of the private school proprietors and also denied allegation of N100 payment levy on the pupils.
"There is no government circular to the effect and the ministry does not intend to introduce this," he said.
He, however said government had approved a shift in date of the examination as a result of the current misunderstanding with the private school proprietors.
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