The Executive Director of M.D School, Lagos, Omolara Adedugbe, has lamented that special education teachers are increasingly shunning schools for private home lessons because of the higher earnings they make from teaching children with special needs individually.
Adedugbe said the development had made it difficult for schools to recruit and retain qualified teachers to cater for neurodivergent children, thereby limiting efforts to provide inclusive education.
She spoke at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of M.D School, Lagos, which was established as an inclusive educational institution in 1986.
She decried the challenges of sustaining special education in Nigeria.
She said, “Getting teachers for neurodivergent children is a very serious challenge in this country because they are not there.
“The few available are ripping parents off. They don’t want to come and work in schools. They want to be special teachers who go into houses and charge per hour. It
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