Perception Of Parents On Over-schooling Of Children At The Pre-primary Education

Over-schooling at the pre-primary school is a serious violation of the provisions of NationalPolicy on Education. It is seen as over burdening, over tasking and over-tutoring of the preprimaryschool children. The study was carried out to ascertain the perception of parents on overschoolingof these young children using Onitsha educational zone as the area of study. Fiveresearch questions and two null hypotheses were formulated while a descriptive survey designwas employed. The population of the study was made up of 2,440 parents of young children whoattend private pre-primary schools in the Oni…