ASSESSMENT OF PRINCIPALS’ VIOLATION OF STUDENTS’ RIGHTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The school as a social institution has the social and constitutional
responsibilities of educating the students and protecting them from the abuse of
their rights and privileges. Effective students’ personnel administration demands
that various administrative activities and services should be carried out by the
school, within the established rules and regulations, in order to ensure total
development of the students Bassey, Arop, Akpama & Ayang, (2012). This
means that school administrators shall not only be knowledgeable about
students’ rights, but should also be proficient in the protection and promotion of
these rights (Nakpodia, 2011).

The principal co-ordinates and ensures that the various process of
administrative activities and services are carried out by the school within an
established rules and regulations so as to ensure total development of the
students in a given school. According to Nakpodia (2009) principals are also
Teachers in Nigerian schools system, who in their position in-loco-parentis to
the children in their charge act, reasonably in this capacity, provided their
actions are in accordance with general and approved educational practice,,, The
principal is the leader of secondary school or Chief Executive Officer of
secondary school administration. Principals as leaders have the key for
achieving sustainable enormous education reforms like accountability, standard,
test, enhancing legal rights of students, site based management, school climate
and turning schools into professional learning communities Fullan(2002).