‘Special education teachers shun schools for home lessons’
- ✦The Executive Director of M.D School, Lagos, Omolara Adedugbe, has lamented that special education teachers are increasingly shunning schools for private home lessons because of the higher earnings they make from teaching children with special needs individually.
- Adedugbe said the development had made it difficult for schools to recruit and retain qualified teachers to cater for neurodivergent children, thereby limiting efforts to provide inclusive education.
- “It is a big challenge, and that is why I have had to start scaling down gradually because of the resources.” Adedugbe, who described M.D School as the first privately owned inclusive mainstream school in Lagos State, also recounted that the institution initially encountered resistance from parents who were uncomfortable enrolling their children alongside pupils with special needs.
- The Executive Director of M.D School, Lagos, Omolara Adedugbe, has lamented that special education teachers are increasingly shunning schools for private home lessons because of the higher earnings they make from teaching children with special needs individually.
An educator laments that special education teachers are shunning schools for lucrative private home lessons, making it difficult to provide inclusive educa
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Adedugbe said the development had made it difficult for schools to recruit and retain qualified teachers to cater for neurodivergent children, thereby limiting efforts to provide inclusive education.
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“It is a big challenge, and that is why I have had to start scaling down gradually because of the resources.” Adedugbe, who described M.D School as the first privately owned inclusive mainstream school in Lagos State, also recounted that the institution initially encountered resistance from parents who were uncomfortable enrolling their children alongside pupils with special needs.
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The Executive Director of M.D School, Lagos, Omolara Adedugbe, has lamented that special education teachers are increasingly shunning schools for private home lessons because of the higher earnings they make from teaching children with special needs individually.
