GANTA, Nimba – Bein-Garr’s district education officer, J. Lynon Mantor, has threatened to close down schools that he considers substandard.
Mantor said schools operating in make-shift structures and having high school graduates as instructional staff will be targeted.
The proliferation of unqualified teachers and high school graduates as instructional staff are found largely in the rural sector of the country.
Mantor said this situation is attributed to the low salaries paid to teachers. He said it makes it difficult for trained teachers and degree holders to take on assignments in the rural parts of the country.
Mator suggested that a teacher who went to one of the rural teacher training institutes would rather seek to be assigned in the city in order to take on part-time teaching jobs at multiple schools to add to the assigned school. This would typically not be possible in rural areas where school are farther apart.
Featured image courtesy of Jason Judy
Good morning, look at the faces of those young and future leaders of Liberia and Africa. They look so much anxious to learn. Please, parents and communities throughout Liberia make your children proud, do everything in your power to help uplift education. All the concession monies paid to counties must be spent on education, healthcare and sanitation. Parents if you do not fight for your kids to get proper education, how will they take care of you when you are a senior citizen or old person? People have kids so when they get old they will be cared for.
These children are poor then poverty herself! Please parents take good care of them