THE PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS ON THE EFFECT OF HAWKING ON ACADEMICS PERFORMANCES OF STUDENT IN SOME SELECTION SCHOOL

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Education is the best legacy a nation can give to her citizens especially the youth. This is because the development of any nation or community depends largely on the quality of education of such a nation. It is generally believed that the basic of any true developments must commerce with the development of human resources. Much than is said that formal education remains the vehicle for social economic development and social mobilization in any society. This generally laid that foundation of fallen standard in educational at the primary and secondary schools levels. According to (Shittu 2004) frequent changes of ministers and commissioner of education by political parties that emerged in the country’s political scene since 1979 has also bought about disparity in educational parties, which caused dierential academic performance and classroom functioning of both teacher’s and student’s from state to state.

According to (Olotu 1994) is the quest of finding survival feet, the nation has evolved series of socio-economic and educational measured and polities such as structure adjustment programme (SAP), Auterity measured universal primary Education (UPE), universal Basic Education (UBE), and devaluation of the naira. These measured have not improved the social economic and educational status of family in the country. They have rather increased their suering and included the socio-economic gap between families (Johnson 1996), Lamented that poor due to these hard measure, such that they can no longer provide adequately for good education for their children. Eect of hawking on academic performance can also aect their children if their parent can no longer provide shelter, clothing, and special need of their children in school such as provision of text books, school uniforms and good medical care and so on. High level of illiteracy poverty and low socio-economic status coupled with high rate of potential and materials deprivation of students academic needs, which was necessitated by poor socio-economic situation of the country has through many farmers and old rural dwellers into untold financial problems such as poverty, lack of money to purchases necessary text books and working materials for their kinds.

Also, many rural and sub rural dwellers can no longer pay the school fees of their wards. There ugly situation has promoted young school students to dropout of school to engaged in subsistence farming and becomes house maids or engage in other manual jobs to support their academic pursit. Hence, many students have since taken schooling as a secondary assignment and school attendance on rotational basis. The resultant problem posed by this is poor academic performance in school examination like National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC). This trend is posing huge problems to parent, government, political parties and stake holders in education. This paper thus examines the socio-economic factors performance of secondary school students in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE STUDY

The major purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of teacher’s on the effect of hawking academic performance of students in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State. Specially to determine whether hawking affect their performance in school, factor that is responsible for hawking and to suggest ways of eradicating hawking by children in order to achieve good education in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State.