El-Rufai does dumb things sometimes. Why must he fire teachers
because they failed some competency test? What constituted this competency
test, anyway? If El-Rufai were tested on the principles of Quantity Surveying,
would he pass it? Would El-Rufai pass a test on elementary organic chemistry,
zoology, physics, calculus, etc? But he will certainly pass any test on
economics, statistics, political science, etc because he works with them every
day.
It is silly to test
teachers on subjects they likely last studied decades ago and use the result as
a legitimate measure for their competency. If any test results suggest
that some teachers in Kaduna state are not fit enough, the reasonable,
humane, and sensible thing to do is to retrain them, not fire them, and then
mandate teachers to undertake refresher or continuing education courses every
five years.
There is no guarantee that
those hired to replace these teachers, if fired, would not be deemed incompetent five
years from now, using the same test that found these ones incompetent.
A leader is humane, even
in the pursuit of excellence. El-Rufai should be a leader, not a rabble rousing
imperfect human being who seeks perfection from other human beings -- it is a
neurotic behavior and he must cease engaging in it.
Don't fire the teachers,
retrain them, governor El-Rufai!
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