The President of ASUSS, Comrade Tunde Folarin, said at the annual congress of the union held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that no matter the pressure, the body would not go back to NUT.
Folarin, who charged the Federal Government and other stakeholders to urgently address the challenges facing the nation’s education sector, expressed the readiness of secondary school teachers to collaborate with the government in achieving the aim.
He said by addressing the challenges of the education sector, an end would be put to avoidable capital flight abroad through the quest to acquire foreign education by many Nigerians.
Folarin, who described the nation’s educational system as dysfunctional, blamed the development on massive corruption in the nation’s leadership.
He said: “Rich parents now send their children to Ghana and Europe for schooling while private schools are daily propagated as our poor-infested public schools have become shadows of themselves.
“We must rise for change of all these things.”
Folarin said of the resolve of the ASSUS not to rejoin the NUT: “Since the commencement of our administration, we have been living in the eye of relentless storm.
“We inherited one court case and as today, we have faced nine court cases apart from the two other ones at the national level in Abuja.
“One was settled out of court, five struck out while we now have two at appeal in Lagos and one in National Industrial Court.
“We have an undying conviction that going back to NUT is not a viable replacement for our welfare to be guaranteed.
“The placement of square peg in a round hole does not drive monumental development.
“Grouping secondary school teachers with primary school teachers as one union is no more fashionable.
“It is retrogressive and therefore represents perversion of system.”
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