A distressed Lagos mother has made an emotional appeal to the Lagos State Ministry of Education, pleading for intervention in what she describes as an unbearable burden of homework being placed on schoolchildren.
Chidi Ebere, a mother of young children, took to her TikTok account (@apieceofjazz) on Tuesday to voice her frustration over the excessive academic workload imposed by schools, particularly in the Lekki area of the state.
"Six Assignments Every Single Day"
In a video that has since gone viral, Ebere could be seen kneeling as she detailed the grueling daily routine her children endure.
"The assignment is becoming too much. We don tire, oh," she lamented in a mix of English and Pidgin. "We are getting six assignments every single day. Our children are overstimulated. When they come back home, they don't even want to write because they are tired."
She painted a stark picture of children operating on autopilot: waking at 6:00 a.m., spending up to ten hours in school, only to return home to hours of homework before repeating the cycle.
"They're acting like zombies. They wake up by six, stay in school till four, come back, and do assignments. Sleep and wake up. What is going to happen?"
"Oil Company Projects" for Five-Year-Olds
The mother particularly criticized the nature of school projects, which she argued are far beyond the developmental capacity of young children and are routinely completed by parents.
"Look at me. I wan nearly craze because I just finished doing projects for my five-year-old. The project at this point is giving oil company projects," she said. "What is the problem?"
For working parents navigating Lagos traffic, she noted, the limited evening hours are completely consumed by schoolwork. Even stay-at-home mothers, she argued, are stretched thin balancing housework with supervising multiple complex assignments.
Emotional Toll on Children
Ebere expressed concern that children are no longer learning but merely "going through classes and going through school." She warned that the relentless academic pressure is robbing children of genuine education and well-being.
"At this point, these children are overstimulated. They're not even learning again," she stressed.
A Growing Concern
This is not an isolated complaint. In 2025, a similar viral video captured another Lagos mother expressing identical frustrations after purchasing four textbooks for her primary school daughter, only to discover each was packed with assignments requiring constant parental supervision.
Ebere's direct appeal to the Lagos State government calls for urgent policy review: "Lagos State government, look into it. Abeg, make una help us, oh."
Her emotional plea has reignited public debate on the purpose of homework, its developmental appropriateness, and the unseen burden carried by both children and parents in Nigeria's competitive education system.
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