The old students of Comprehensive High School. Aiyetoro in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State have called on the state to revert the school to the boarding system to better serve its core mandate of teaching and instilling character and discipline in students.
The alumni lamented that its members were almost moved to tears after visiting their alma mater recently and couldn’t believe their eyes on seeing the hitherto boarding facilities they had enjoyed, have been left to lie waste since 80s when the state government converted it to day school.
The Chairman of the ACOSA737 set of Comprehensive High School Aiyetoro, Oluwarotimi Fashola, PhD, who spoke the mind of the set at the weekend during its 51 anniversary celebration in Abeokuta, said the school ,conceptualised and designed for boarding school system, lamented that the state converted it to day school midway after it had been running as a boarding school.
Fashola noted that reverting to boarding system would enable the school better serve the people of Ogun State, not just Aiyetoro, adding that it was designed purposely as boarding school and day school.
“When I got to the school last week, I felt like crying because I realised that my own boarding house is no longer in use, and I’m sure that if we are allowed as old students to rebirth the boarding school, then more people can come to that school and we can manage the school with the boarding facility, Comprehensive High School Aiyetoro was designed to be a boarding school and not a day school.
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“I’m passionate that a boarding school of Comprehensive High School will do a better job, a better institution for the people of Ogun State not just Aiyetoro. That was the design, that was the concept. The structures are still standing there, but there are no students because it is now a day school. It was designed and conceptualized as a boarding school and up till the 80s. It should revert as a boarding school that is open to all Nigerians and not just Ogun State alone,” he said.
At the anniversary celebration, which also featured conferring of awards on deserving members, Fashola called on old students to help develop the alma mater, saying government alone should not be left to bear the burden of enhancing the capacity of the school to meet its mandate of teaching and moulding character of the students.
“We have come to the realisation that the government cannot handle all the schools alone. “
There are multiple issues across the school and scarce resources. It is pertinent that the old school association join hands with the government for sustainable development of the school.”