A look at the psychology of Nigerian secondary school teachers

By:Ebo E.C Chukwuma

The job of a secondary school teacher is a very sensitive one, they play the role of instilling sound morale values into adolescents going through a very turbulent age, not everyone is psychological mature to handle such job.

Research shows 70-80% Nigerian students go through puberty stage during their secondary school level, what this implies is, mostly during their secondary school level they go through a stage of physical, emotional and psychological change that demands for one whom is learned and exposed to guide and mentor them appropriately in the right direction, at this stage when the kids aren’t given right mentorship, it poses the threat of making the minors go contrary to the norms guiding our society.

Secondary school teachers aren’t just paid for class lessons, they are expected to be moral and psychological support to students, they are expected to be sensitive and interrogative while in the midst of students, secondary school students are still minors hence should be monitored ardently especially in the midst of the opposite sex, they crave for certain pleasure that if allowed could be detrimental to them, they are engulfed by exuberance at the peak of puberty stage, been lenient with them when found wanting is not just dangerous but wicked.

some unisex boarding schools in Nigeria are like brothels at night when the supposed teachers and boarding masters leaves the students in the care of senior prefects, they do the unthinkable at night when no teacher is around to monitor them, at the end, some female students get pregnant out of wedlock, this hits on the fact that the supposed teachers and boarding masters aren’t logical enough to man their duties.

The job of a secondary school teacher is weigh more than that of a university lecturer, majority of nigerian secondary school teachers aren’t psychologically sound to man their jobs, most of them socialize students into canal ways even.

School managements should be very logical while interviewing her prospective teachers, to ascertain those worthy of been given the platform to impact knowledge to students and all round moral upbringing.

Written by:
Ebo E.C Chukwuma
A Sociopolitical enthusiast,
Writer and activist.