Alumni to save school by employing teachers

The old students of Community Comprehensive High School, Ikaram-Akoko, Ondo State are set to inaugurate an executive to save the school from its dwindling fortune.

The 11-man executive led by Mr Oluwarotimi Williams-Daudu will be inaugurated on Sept. 24.

Williams-Daudu, in his acceptance speech on Monday in Ikaram Akoko, said the association would recruit teachers in different subjects, renovate the dilapidated structures and build new ones for the school.

According to him, the public school has only four teachers posted by the state government and this has taken toll on the performances of the students in unified examinations.

He noted that the ex-students of the school decided to rally round to rescue it from depleting human and infrastructure resources.

Wiiliams-Daudu recalled with nostalgia the enviable achievements recorded by the school in academics and sports.

He lamented how the old glory fizzled out due to negligence and abandonment.

“How come that just a few months ago, the school had just four teachers? Is that not incredible. Performances have been extremely poor and these kids are no longer competitive in any positive sense.

“These negative developments and downward change in the trajectory of the school is depressing and worrisome.

“Worse still, the students do not even have the right attitude to learning and the parents appear helpless.

“Indiscipline has reached an alarming rate and like a virus, it has eaten deep and fast destroying the fabrics of the school and all we have laboured to build over the years.

“We can surmount these problems. The truth of the matter is that we have all expressed readiness to serve at this critical time in the history of our Alma mater,” he said.