The President of the Foundation for Generational Thinkers (FOGET), Mr Prosper Afetsi has charged first and second cycle school students to make maximum use of the opportunity given to them by the government to return to schools after nine months of staying at home.
He said they should, therefore, guard against any forms of distractions and keep their focus while in schools and abide by all the COVID-19 safety etiquettes wherever they found themselves.
“Whether we like it or not we have to go back to school. COVID-19 affected the entire world and every school in the country was shut down because of the pandemic. That is why it is important for you to put aside all that we have gone through and focus on what is ahead,” he said.
Discussions
Mr Afetsi, who was contributing to a discussion dubbed “Why am I in school?”, said once they (students) had their dreams to pursue, they should work towards achieving them with their return to school instead of brooding over the period of school closure.
In the course of writing their examinations, he said, students should be minded by the fact that standards would not be lowered because of COVID-19 and so they should study well before entering the examinational halls.