Private School Teachers' plights have now been turned to something anyone can be using to catch cruise on social media. Some of you will ask that they summit their I.D cards online to qualify for 2k giveaways, just to garner follows or show you have the money. UNA DEY MAD!!

Two days ago, a man came out with a post that he was ready to help teachers in plights, esp the private school teachers, like 500 teachers submitted their I.D cards on that post, nothing came out of it, just cruise!!

Do you understand what it really means to be in their shoes at all? Do you understand how much they've gone through to survive since March? Do you have any iota of feelings for humanity? Is this how to treat people who collect chicken feeds to give your children the best of

education? If you think that using their plights to accrue followership or draw attention to yourself is the best thing they deserve during national crisis like this, then I pray you find yourself in their dilemma some day too!

I know we relegate teachers' influence a lot. They are nothing to most of you. A lot of you think these people find themselves in teaching because they are not that intelligent to function in other professions or they are just too local.

That's how demeaning some of you have come, and it's fine—a healed man forgets the efforts of his physician so easily. But humanity demands that you help these dying souls who have helped shape your life and that of your children one way or the other,not treating them as beggars!

They are not beggars. Neither are they lazy! They are trained to teach, to bring the best out of your children. And they are always ready to obey that clarion call with little or big pay. Just that, these few months have been hard on them. To even get children to take on home

lesson is now hard. Most parents can't afford it. Neither can most teachers afford venturing into other business due to lack of capital and experience

If you then want to offer them helps, do so with sincere hearts. Stop using them to catch cruise, because they're at your mercy.

Asking teachers to start submitting their I.D's or the pics they took with their students for giveaways is not the best way to treat such noble professions.Imagine a student of mine seeing me dropping my I.D on a post for 2k giveaway,such student will see and treat me as a beggar

henceforth. The respect he or she has for me declines, and s/he starts hating my profession, praying never to end up like me. We might say the possibility of them seeing such is slim, but this is jet age where a 9 year old child is now using an Iphone.

There are better ways of helping teachers in time like this. Creating a WhatsApp group or something and asking these people to join is something nicer. That way, the secrecy of their I.D's is maintained. And they will not also be made to feel guilty they are soiling the name

of the school they work for.

The way we go about helping teachers lately on social media has made even news outlets come out with demeaning and insensitive headline like that of @MobilePunch below, where the outlet tag teachers as "beggars".It really disheartening seeing caption

like that to be honest.

I feel especially pained seeing them tagged with beggars. Teachers are not beggars, and they will never be. If you can not help them in time like this, at least put some respect on the profession.

If you also feel bad with the ways teachers are bring tagged beggars, can we all add the hashtag #teachersarenotbeggars to our comment under this tread. Let's let the message go up to the authorities and news outlets.

Here is that demeaning headline from @MobilePunch. Does this even make any sense?