What's the intent behind it,
Rushing off to set questions after eight moons?
But who's the devil here,
You or your paymasters?
This cycle of wickedness must stop,
Downing tools in protest of measely wages,
Extracting promissory notes after rolling weeks,
Only to subject frustrated young minds to ad-hoc examination?
The claim of sitting on ashes,
For days on end,
In favour of a more beautiful system,
May just be undone by this callous act;
If truly you desire a future workforce,
Better than the generations before,
Then act like you truly care,
Allow time to re-engage;
Cultivate their fallow minds,
Back to productive ways,
After all, what glory is there,
In being successful with mass failures?
Oct 19, 2022
Oct 19, 2022 at 8:19 AM UTC
What's the intent behind it,
Rushing off to set questions after eight moons?
But who's the devil here,
You or your paymasters?
This cycle of wickedness must stop,
Downing tools in protest of measely wages,
Extracting promissory notes after rolling weeks,
Only to subject frustrated young minds to ad-hoc examination?
The claim of sitting on ashes,
For days on end,
In favour of a more beautiful system,
May just be undone by this callous act;
If truly you desire a future workforce,
Better than the generations before,
Then act like you truly care,
Allow time to re-engage;
Cultivate their fallow minds,
Back to productive ways,
After all, what glory is there,
In being successful with mass failures?
After Nigeria tertiary lecturers call off their long months of strike, they immediately rush students to write examination. But what's the intent behind this callous act - mass failure?
These lecturers hold government to ransome and inadvertently lay undergraduates off their books for months. The idea of setting examinations immediately after strike is called off only shows predetermined wicked intent to fail and not actually impart knowledge.
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