Nigerians have queried the Lagos State government over the reopening of Chrisland Schools barely a week after it was shut down.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ordered that Chrisland school be shut on April 18, after controversies following a video of a female student involved in sexual activity with male students in Dubai.

However, the Lagos State Commissioner of Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement, explained that the reopening of Chrislqnd was to ensure that other students were not denied access to learning while an investigation into the issue continued.

The decision has stirred conversations online, as some Nigerians wondered why the Chrisland school was shut in the first place.

However, some applauded the government for reopening the school.

Here are some comments gathered by DAILY POST:

@FisayoSoyumbo “Closing Chrisland Schools, what exactly was it meant to achieve in the first place?

@AyomideTosin “So, what’s the outcome of the investigation?

@Alliguzon “Well, the school should not be expected to be closed for ever, I am just wondering if any disciplinary action was taken before the reopening.”

@Themaineltee “It’s quite easy for everyone to cast aspersions on Chrisland schools, purposely forgetting other schools exist where kids have erred similarly. It is not a problem of school, it is a problem of inadequate home training! One thing is to speak to your kids.”

@Geoffreydpr “To me Sanwo ordering opening school in short a time is sending a strong message to Nigerians , this is the second incident he is opening school in short time, investigation need to be concluded and guilty charged to court from opening school.”

@KesterDave “So that is it this country will not stop making me laugh no report of the investigation if at all all is to suspend the girl and reopen the school this is clear money have exchange hands.

@Omenaipearls “Charity they say begins at home, fine! But then, schools have a great role to play in the life of their students too. Chrisland School cannot be exonerated. Acts may be learnt at home but they are perfected in Schools. Stop indulging brats. Set rules and follow them strictly.”

@Stanleyonuajah “Government is reopening Chrisland Schools in Lagos. If you don’t train your children from home, school can’t do magic.”

@Dammygtnet “It was a wrong step ab initio. No need to shut it down at all. I repeat, giving a kid a smartphone is an invitation to societal vices.”

@Bankymoon “Sentiment will make people not to see that the fault the school had was that they didn’t inform the family of the girl on time. But people wanna blame the school because the girl and the boys learnt about s*x or blame them for falling asleep at midnight.”

Moreso, stakeholders in the education sector have linked the moral decadence threatening to destroy Nigerian youths to poor parenting.

The stakeholders, who spoke during a RayPower FM’s virtual discussion on the topic ‘Growing Moral Decadence in Classrooms and the Blame Game,’ and monitored by our correspondent, blamed parents whom they say have relegated parenting to house helps and teachers.

Speaking further on the issue, Registrar of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Olusegun Ajiboye, who was a guest at the programme, stated that parents nowadays have failed to provide their children with the support and guidance needed for their proper growth and development, and advised them to do better in raising morally-sound children.

While frowning at parents shipping their children to schools and hoping that the teacher would perform some miracle, Ajiboye reminded parents that, “There is no school equal to a decent home, and no teacher equal to a factual parent.”

He urged all parents to stand up to the responsibility of taking care of their children, maintaining that no parents should bring a child into the world if they are not ready to take care of it.

Lamenting that parents had become slaves to their children, Ajiboye maintained his strong belief in the efficacy of corporal punishment in putting children straight.

“I am a believer of the fact that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. Children should be disciplined. Corporal punishment is allowed in schools. The law recognizes it.

“However, there are people to administer that; either the principal or the vice principal. We recognize that there can be excesses. That is the reason the law says that there are people that should do that. It is not for everybody. If we generally abandon the rod, what is happening now will be a child’s play to what will happen in the future,” he said.

However, Professor Mopeola Omoegun, a Fellow of the Counselling Association of Nigeria, disagreed with Ajiboye on the issue of corporal punishment, adding that it has a negative impact on the children.

While suggesting measures like denial and time out to help straighten a child, Omoegun spoke of the need for parents to begin early to teach the children sexuality education so as to enable them know and report when they are being violated.

She, however, added that children could not approach their parents to discuss issues bothering them unless the parents create time for them and make them their best friends and confidants.

Also speaking, a public affairs analyst, Francesca Ogulade, lamented that the value system in recent times has shifted from hard work and integrity to inordinate pursuit of money, adding it is high time parents returned to teaching their children values such as dignity and integrity, and showing them the difference between right from wrong.

While agreeing that parenting in the digital age is different and more difficult, the discussants urged parents to monitor what their children watch and limit their level of access to video and online content.

This is coming at a time students of Chrisland School were involved in an immoral act.

The students who traveled to Dubai for games were caught having sex the video was released online.