The
Management of Early Dew Montessori Academy, Enugu, has tendered an unreserved
apology to Enugu State Government for the untoward and unprofessional act
displayed by a teacher in the school.
A teacher had invited
armed police officers to the school premises to threaten some school children
between the ages of four and seven for failure to do their assignments.
The letter of apology,
addressed to Commissioner for Education, Enugu State, was made available to
journalists on Friday.
“We apologise most
profusely for the embarrassment to your esteemed office and the Executive
Governor of the State whose unfailing support for the education sector seemed
to have been sullied,” the letter said.
“The school also
tendered our unqualified apologies to all those out there whose sense of
decency and civility may have been offended by the unfortunate incident.
“The unprofessional act
was most uncalled for as it was overzealousness by the head teacher taken too
far.
“There was no intention
whatsoever to arrest any child as alleged as no child was taken outside the
school premises.”
According to the
statement, we promise and undertake that such will never happen again under our
watch.
“We
appeal most humbly that the closure of the school be lifted so that our
children are not unduly affected negatively by the continued closure of the
school,” it appealed.
The state’s
Commissioner for Education, Uche Eze, had on receiving reports from concerned
citizens of the unfortunate incident, visited the school.
Mr. Eze, however,
withdrew the school’s operational licence immediately after confirming that the
incident took place.
A letter by Mr. Eze,
dated February 20, and addressed to the school’s proprietress, stated that the
act “constitutes gross professional misconduct and could leave the children
psychologically traumatised”.
The letter stressed
that “it also has the potential of diminishing the person of the child and
making him or her live in perpetual fear of schooling”.
The act was greeted
with wide condemnation from the public, especially in the social media.
-NAN
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