Parents, others complain about entrance exam malpractice

Concerned Parents Educators forum’s Facebook page has seen a number of complaints from parents and educators who saw cheating during the National Common Entrance Examination.

The remarks made reference to the unethical behaviour of the invigilators who could be seen shouting out answers to the students during the exam on July 22.

Over 500 comments were left on the first anonymous post, which stated,

I recently received unimpressive feedback from a parent at my school whose child took the Lagos State Common Entrance Examination on Saturday.

“An examiner shouted answers to the students in the exam room. Not only were the answers called, but our students also faced harassment and intimidation for not responding. They asked, “Why didn’t you write the answers when others were writing?” in a hurried manner.

“Plz explain why this should be. For crying out loud, these are elementary school age children.

Why teach and encourage cheating when we have worked so hard to educate these children academically and morally? Why?

What kind of evil are those in power sowing in these children’s lives? I simply don’t comprehend this society, which is very sad. We keep endorsing and encouraging undesirable characters and anticipate magic.

When will this situation in Nigeria end? Just plain angry. I am aware of the work we did to get these kids ready and how diligent they were. May that inspector meet his demise.

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Omolayo Afolabi, another user of the internet, added: “Same story every year so not even CPE can do anything about it, and some of the teachers involved as invigilators are on this platform, all because of peanut they want to ruin some of the intentional parents and teachers effort, the real change begins with me and you.”

It is occurring in every state, Dammy Dorcas remarked. Last year, I was so irate—just look at how administrators from both public and private schools raced around to help the students with their homework. When I looked at them, they abruptly left me after asking for some of my own money. I sternly warned my students not to shade anything they were given and instructed them not to tell anyone about me.

However, Mr. Fatai Bakare, public affairs officer for the Lagos State Examinations Board, insisted in a PUNCH interview that the board monitored some centres in Lagos during the exam.