Children’s human right education and lack of risk assessment

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• Namjia 11 years ago

  It would be interesting to hear the Government's stance on this article. Many children in rural areas have fallen through our system of education thus missing on becoming fully economic independence.

  It would be interesting to hear the Government's stance on this article. Many children in rural areas have fallen through our system of education thus missing on becoming fully economic independence.

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• S. ATTA OWUSU 11 years ago

  Human rights for children in the West sometimes create problems for the parents. It is difficult to know to what extent a child should be punished. These children are given phone numbers to the police and the social service. ...
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  Human rights for children in the West sometimes create problems for the parents. It is difficult to know to what extent a child should be punished. These children are given phone numbers to the police and the social service. They easily report their parents for beating them and most of the time the children are taken away from their parents. However in Ghana, it is important to protect the children's right due to deliberate child abuse.

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• abena 11 years ago

  When you have drunkards parents drinking Akpeteshie all day and nights don't you feel perhaps having such a guidance as you explained would have helped the the kids and empowered them so that their lives are not also ruined .

  When you have drunkards parents drinking Akpeteshie all day and nights don't you feel perhaps having such a guidance as you explained would have helped the the kids and empowered them so that their lives are not also ruined .

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• GIRLS SP 11 years ago

  Bogus Mercy Adade, another stupid fool NDC writer.

  Bogus Mercy Adade, another stupid fool NDC writer.

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• Schengen 11 years ago

  The bottom line is that NO CHILD in Ghana should have to attend school under trees. This cannot be negotiated.
  
  It would have been good if Bolus, the writer, had also found out how many children of MPs and Ministers are at ...
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  The bottom line is that NO CHILD in Ghana should have to attend school under trees. This cannot be negotiated.
  
  It would have been good if Bolus, the writer, had also found out how many children of MPs and Ministers are attending school under trees. I don't think Bolus knows the number.
  
  The thing that is bad is not so much that Ghanaian kids are attending school under trees. The bad thing is that this is happening while ministers and MPs are enjoying high standards of living and sending their children to the best schools in air-conditioned rooms and even outside the country. This is actually not a partisan issue. Both govt and opposition MPS have their children in good schools. Even the MPs from the constituencies where there are classrooms under trees have their children in school in a room.
  
  It would have been great if the writer had told us what the Minister of Education (she was a prof at UCC) has to say about this and where her own children went to school. But Bolus doesn't know. She wrote this article without finding that out. She is in the UK so she finds out things about the UK and then uses them to comment on things in Ghana that she has read on ghanaweb.
  
  We should also not forget that children have gone to school under trees in ALL of our history. It happened even under the Nkrumah regime. Nkrumah was in a hurry to let everybody go to school and one couldn't wait for proper classrooms to be built before lessons were given. Better to go to school under trees than not to go to school at all! So people went to school even then. I am old enough to know that! And when NPP was in power, people went to school under trees. Going to school under trees has been a feature of Ghanaian education since the 50s. That is why we should be careful how we make this a political issue.
  
  No government in our history has been able to do away with schools under trees. So this is a national tragedy rather than a governmental one.
  
  Oh, I am being carried away. Let me stop here...

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• Gaba 11 years ago

  We are fed up of these book people .Ghanaians are found of showing their prowess in only books but when It comes to implementing those stuffs,it becomes a nightmare .
  We have all the lawyers and all the science profs and doc ...
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  We are fed up of these book people .Ghanaians are found of showing their prowess in only books but when It comes to implementing those stuffs,it becomes a nightmare .
  We have all the lawyers and all the science profs and doctors yet Ghana for 60 years having come out for anything .
  Noone in Ghana even in Africa has ever invented anything .
  We are just reading the black books and the archemedies and the Newton's theories for close to a century now but it seem difficult to understand by black man .
  Let's agree to this reality .Let's say to ourselves that really we don't understand those principles .

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