Mixed feelings as private school students go on excursion to public school

Mixed feelings trail the decision of a private school in Port Harcourt to take her students to a public school to expose their students to the different educational structures.

An education enthusiast, Alex Onyia identified as @winexviv on X shared the revelation, describing it as a move to motivate the students of Charles Dale Memorial School.

According to Alex, the students were taken to Igwuruta Community Secondary School to spend an entire day as public school students.

They shared the same classrooms, and playgrounds as the rest of the Govt. school students. The second phase of the exercise is said to involve the public school students visiting Charles Dale Memorial School.

“Charles Dale Memorial School sent their students to Igwuruta Community Secondary School to experience what education looks like in a public school in Port-Harcourt. They had classes together, and also experienced first hand the bad state of public schools.

This is good and it has helped exposed these children to the sad reality in Nigerian public schools,” he wrote.

The post, however, stirred mixed feelings with many describing it as a ridiculous move aimed at degrading the government school students.

Reactions as Private school students excursions at public school

AjeboDanny quizzed: “Are they also going to send the students of Igwuruta to Charles dale to experience the good state of private school?”

Ugodaniel_ noted: “It’s good to have a sense of reality you’re not in touch with. It helps balance one’s view of life.”

harrisonJNIOR penned: “How do they want the kids in the public school to feel like now? Inferior? Whose idea was this?”

LoveNemesisX wrote: “So when are they inviting the poor kids to the rich school to learn how one can enjoy luxury without stress and to also know that cutting grass with cutlass every Thursday is not the only way to built character.”

Akwaugonnaya_ opined: “This is not good sir. This act should be condemned. Public schools should not be used as an excursion site for the elites kids. This is so wrong for crying out loud.

“You never considered the mental health of those public school students before posting this because if you did you would have known that this act is going to lower their self esteem and cause them to question their existence or their parents inability to level up with the elites.”