While the COVID-19 test is free for public secondary school students in the state, their counterparts in private schools are required to pay N25,000.
Socialist Party of NigeriaThe state had earlier fixed resumption of SS3 students for Tuesday, to allow them to prepare for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination slated to begin on August 17.
The dissatisfied parents on Sunday thronged the 250-bed MTR specialist hospital, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the designated place for the pupils in Abeokuta after attempts to get their wards tested for free failed. “We are strongly opposed to a situation where the pupils, their parents or the workers, are being made to bear the brunt of the costs of these measures.”
According to the group, sending wards to private schools was not a choice freely made, but made possible by the worsening conditions of the public schools with inadequate facilities and poor learning conditions.
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