Anambra To Introduce Coronavirus Education Into School Curriculum.

As part of efforts to fight the Coronavirus pandemic to a standstill, the Anambra State Government has announced its intention to include COVID-19 education as a subject in school curriculum.

Okayyyy....... as much as this might sound funny initially but, let's read more to understand what they meant.

The state commissioner for Basic Education Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha disclosed this to newsmen at the secretariat complex Awka. She  said that the strategy was meant to instill the culture and practice of simple personal hygiene in primary and secondary school pupils as well as educate them on the covid19 prevention protocols.

Hmmmm...okay....

Omenugha opined that the strategy became pertinent, especially as the government was working assiduously to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the state.

The commissioner also disclosed that the government would expand as well as repackage its ongoing On-Air-Learning Programme to meet the special needs of over 500 pupils living with hearing impairment, stressing that the government would introduce the Sign Languages and other means to carry deaf students along in the On-Air-Learning Programme...

Sounds reasonable.

She was quoted to said, ”what we are doing now is to get prepared to welcome the students.The teachers are back and they are trying to get the schools tidied up; fixing information materials on hand-washing and others on the walls of the classrooms.

”We will also domisticate covid19 education by introducing it into the school curriculum so that people doing history can talk about the history of fluids all over the world; those in biology can talk about personal hygiene and so on."

Does it mean thes people have not been teaching the students simple health education?  The mediocrity of some governments is legendary.

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