Female French Teacher Rejects N55,000 Salary Offer from School Charging N294,000 Fees

A lady applying for the position of a French language teacher has expressed her discontent in the salary offer availed to her after showing up at an interview at a private school. A lady with the social media handle @thrift_precious has taken to the internet recently to share her experience and dissatisfaction with the amount offered as salary.

In a video she posted online, she related how she attended interviews at two different schools but was left unimpressed by the salary package offered by one of the institutions. According to her, the school offered to pay her N55,000 per month-a salary she felt was inadequate to cover the workload she was going to do.

She emphasized that the number of classes she was expected to teach was quite large and the responsibilities far exceeded the low salary being offered. The French teacher cautioned private school owners to have their teachers’ welfare at heart and insisted that the toil the teachers put in should be appreciated with a fair and competitive salary. She urged them to upscale by paying a wage commensurate with the quality of education they provide and which the parents are made to pay.

Her video has stirred up an online debate; many social media users rallied behind her words. While many shared the same experience, commenting that low wages in the education sector were rife. Others comforted her with words and congratulated her on standing up for not wanting to work for such a low salary.

Precious’s story has brought into sharp focus the ordeals educators go through in a profession that hardly values teachers and pressed for reforms in private schools’ ways of compensating their employees. The incident has struck a chord with people, amid debates on wage fairness in the teaching profession.