💔 WHY I STOPPED MARKING WAEC SCRIPTS From NG. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCmOT690x2pyUZYZH2j The last time I marked WAEC scripts was in 2019 — and I still haven’t healed from it. I was given a little over 300 scripts to mark. Each script filled with long theory questions — with sub-questions a, b, and c. It wasn’t a job. It was punishm€my. I spent two full weeks. Sleepless nights. Tired eyes. No weekends. No side work. No rest. Just me, a red pen, and a heavy heart. For every script I marked, I was paid ₦13. When you calculate it, it gave me just around ₦4,000. The rest of what made my total pay up to ₦13,000 was for so-called “logistics”: transportation, corrections, and back-and-forth stress that I paid for with my own strength and sanity. But in the end, what was left to take home? Nothing. Nothing but pa!n. I saw colleagues take multiple packs — 600… 900… even 1,200 scripts — not because they had the strength, but because they were desperate for more money as the pay per pack is small. And when the burden became too much, they handed the scripts to anyone who could help them meet the deadline — students, friends, even non-teachers who didn’t understand the subject. Scripts were rushed. Wrong answers were ticked. Good students were failed. And no one will ever know what those children truly wrote. I looked at my pay, looked at my work, and I asked myself one painful question: Is this how a system kills both teachers and students silently? From that moment, I said never again. Not until there is real change. Not until they value our effort. Not until teachers are treated like human beings — not cheap machines. 📢 To every teacher who has marked WAEC scripts and felt this pain — Let this be your voice. Let this post be your cry. 📢 If you’ve ever spent nights marking, only to be insuIT€d with peanuts — share this. Copied https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCmOT690x2pyUZYZH2j