Investigate teacher brutality, say child rights activists

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Jnfak 12 years ago

This is a serious abuse by our colo teachers who are still using canes on innocent children. They want pay rise but never teaches anything and reserve important topics for vacation classes. He should be investigated and punis ...
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This is a serious abuse by our colo teachers who are still using canes on innocent children. They want pay rise but never teaches anything and reserve important topics for vacation classes. He should be investigated and punished if convicted.
Dean 12 years ago

Ministry of Education if you are handling the issue be passionate as a parent and ensure fairness on behalf of the child.

Ministry of Education if you are handling the issue be passionate as a parent and ensure fairness on behalf of the child.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

Since when did the Ghana Education Service assume responsibility for investigating criminal acts in Ghana? The teacher who brutalised the child should have been arrested for his barbaric act. The matter should be handled by ...
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Since when did the Ghana Education Service assume responsibility for investigating criminal acts in Ghana? The teacher who brutalised the child should have been arrested for his barbaric act. The matter should be handled by the police and the teacher prosecuted. He is not fit to be a teacher. Discipline is not the same as abuse. What he did to the child was abuse, inhumane and degrading punishment. The parents should sue the school and the teacher.
KK 12 years ago

Spare the rod and you spoil the child. (Biblical) Give the child his full right and s/he will grow up and take yours through arm robbery

Spare the rod and you spoil the child. (Biblical) Give the child his full right and s/he will grow up and take yours through arm robbery
KK 12 years ago

The Bible Says:
"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24) and "Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou s ...
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The Bible Says:
"He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24) and "Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell." (Proverbs 23:13-14)
Ghanaian Okie from Musgokee 12 years ago

So in the 21st. century,these primitive behaviors on the part of teachers is still prevailing in Ghana.In the US, the teacher involved in this act will definitely find his ass in jail.
Don't ignorantly use the scriptures t ...
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So in the 21st. century,these primitive behaviors on the part of teachers is still prevailing in Ghana.In the US, the teacher involved in this act will definitely find his ass in jail.
Don't ignorantly use the scriptures to back him up,the student involved is grown,past his formative years and does not need corrections.
GSA 12 years ago

The relevance of the Bible is not primitive. Yes US land of freedom - people take guns and their RIGHT is to to kill others. People gather together and their right is to strip naked. People meets same sex and their right is t ...
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The relevance of the Bible is not primitive. Yes US land of freedom - people take guns and their RIGHT is to to kill others. People gather together and their right is to strip naked. People meets same sex and their right is to marry each other. I understand you. Rights in US
PRECIOUS 12 years ago

We have to be circumspect in these issues. It is true what the bible says but that does not make a crime right does it. Teachers are meant to punish children to correct them and not to hospitalize them. Once the teachers step ...
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We have to be circumspect in these issues. It is true what the bible says but that does not make a crime right does it. Teachers are meant to punish children to correct them and not to hospitalize them. Once the teachers steps beyond the boundaries of correction it behoves on the police plus GES to put things right. Its high time teachers behaved responsibly towards our children. We discipline our children and take them to school for teachers to add their bit and not send them to hospitals.
Nantwi,BSEd,MSEd(ece),MSEd(sas) 12 years ago

Isn't it a routine that in Ghana teachers beat school children like horses?

Isn't it a routine that in Ghana teachers beat school children like horses?
Observer 12 years ago

".... irrespective of what the child has done". Yes children have rights, but what about responsibilities? Wait until your child takes a gun and shoot you dead before you come up with that phrase. Nobody would want to condone ...
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".... irrespective of what the child has done". Yes children have rights, but what about responsibilities? Wait until your child takes a gun and shoot you dead before you come up with that phrase. Nobody would want to condone what the teachers may have done, but if the GES is handling the case, I suppose it is the right thing to do. If the child had not sneaked out of school, the teachers would not have punished him/her. Advise children to abide by regulations and nobody would be hurt!

beat your child like that 12 years ago

why should GES handle this inhuman act by the foolish teachers? GES is not competent enough to handle this issue as it involves criminality. This is not the case of "spare the rod in the bible" as the punishment mated out to ...
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why should GES handle this inhuman act by the foolish teachers? GES is not competent enough to handle this issue as it involves criminality. This is not the case of "spare the rod in the bible" as the punishment mated out to this young girl has resulted she been hospitalized.if that young girl is even an arm robber would these insensitive teachers have beating her like that.This can never happen in UK here.Let's protect our children through "guidance and counselling" rather than this abusive approach.
Kwame B 12 years ago

if i were to be this poor girl, I would take a gun and shoot these bastard teachers. There are many ways to parish a child but to beat a child is a crime against humanity. The teachers must be punished and using canes must ...
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if i were to be this poor girl, I would take a gun and shoot these bastard teachers. There are many ways to parish a child but to beat a child is a crime against humanity. The teachers must be punished and using canes must be abolish.
Kwame B 12 years ago

My sister went through this horrible incident by refusing to give inn to her teacher`s advances.Teachers use this as a weapon against any girl who refuse to give inn to their sexual advances. I WILL TAKE REVENGE IF ANY TEACH ...
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My sister went through this horrible incident by refusing to give inn to her teacher`s advances.Teachers use this as a weapon against any girl who refuse to give inn to their sexual advances. I WILL TAKE REVENGE IF ANY TEACHER DO THIS TO MY CHILD.
Sulamana 12 years ago

I remember a teacher at the Keta Roman Catholic Boys' Middle School in the 1960's. His nickname was BKK. (Ben K Kudiabor). He was a brutal child abuser. He abused all his classes and considered it a point of honor to cane st ...
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I remember a teacher at the Keta Roman Catholic Boys' Middle School in the 1960's. His nickname was BKK. (Ben K Kudiabor). He was a brutal child abuser. He abused all his classes and considered it a point of honor to cane students. This beast traumatised students who even today hate his guts even though he is dead. This stone age behavior must stop. Students can be suspended (internally or externally), or expelled if the gravity of the offense is as such. But to cane students because they got wrong answers in a mental test or poor grades is a mark of animalism. We need to get out of the stone age and get into the space and info age.
George 12 years ago

The teachers must be jailed

The teachers must be jailed

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