Of School Dropouts And Why There’s Nothing Bad Being One

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• ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

  he has no sense

  he has no sense

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• Military Man 10 years ago

  Let me ask you this question, Joe.
  
  Are our Ghanaian kids the target of your article? I hope not because if they are the ones you are targeting with this article, then you should be ashamed of yourself because you are doing ...
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  Let me ask you this question, Joe.
  
  Are our Ghanaian kids the target of your article? I hope not because if they are the ones you are targeting with this article, then you should be ashamed of yourself because you are doing our nation a dis-service!
  
  Just revisit your own article and see for yourself if even one of those names you mentioned and used for the bases of this article was born on the this cursed African continent of ours, where opportunities and second chances for an uneducated person are like looking for a water source in the desert.
  
  All those names you mentioned as recipients of second chances and prosperity after dropping out of school were born in countries where opportunities and second chances abound.
  I'm from a very poor family and education was my saviour just like a lot of Ghanaians. I have benefitted immensely from the education I received in Ghana because I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Education gave me a profession I've grown into over the years and gotten pretty good at.
  
  Reading your article just gave me chills, thinking I must thank my lucky stars that people like you were not around spewing out trash like this
  when I was a kid growing up in Ghana.
  
  Your observations may hold true in the western world but definitely not in our part of the world unless one was born into a rich family with businesses already set up for these school dropout kids to slide into.
  
  I live in the Western world now too and I know for certain that for every school dropout kid who made it, there are thousands of school dropout kids who live on the streets of the big cities living lives as drug-dependent criminals.
  
  So I'm wishing that you will write a second episode of this trash and warn our Ghanaian and for that matter, our African kids to stay in school and get the best education they can get.
  
  You will be doing the whole continent a big favour.
  
  Can you do that, Joe?.
  
  Just tell our kids that this article was not meant for them but the kids in the most industrialized nations even where such chances can be likened to crapshoots. A big gamble if you asked me!!!!
  
  The only part of your article that made sense to me as an African, was the last paragraph.

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• Military Man 10 years ago

  Let me ask you this question, Joe.
  
  Are our Ghanaian kids the target of your article? I hope not because if they are the ones you are targeting with this article, then you should be ashamed of yourself because you are doin ...
  read full comment

  Let me ask you this question, Joe.
  
  Are our Ghanaian kids the target of your article? I hope not because if they are the ones you are targeting with this article, then you should be ashamed of yourself because you are doing our nation a dis-service!
  
  Just revisit your own article and see for yourself if even one of those names you mentioned and used for the bases of this article was born on the this cursed African continent of ours, where opportunities and second chances for an uneducated person are like looking for a water source in the desert.
  
  All those names you mentioned as recipients of second chances and prosperity after dropping out of school were born in countries where opportunities and second chances abound.
  I'm from a very poor family and education was my saviour just like a lot of Ghanaians. I have benefitted immensely from the education I received in Ghana because I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Education gave me a profession I've grown into over the years and gotten pretty good at.
  
  Reading your article just gave me chills, thinking I must thank my lucky stars that people like you were not around spewing out trash like this
  when I was a kid growing up in Ghana.
  
  Your observations may hold true in the western world but definitely not in our part of the world unless one was born into a rich family with businesses already set up for these school dropout kids to slide into.
  
  I live in the Western world now too and I know for certain that for every school dropout kid who made it, there are thousands of school dropout kids who live on the streets of the big cities living lives as drug-dependent criminals.
  
  So I'm wishing that you will write a second episode of this trash and warn our Ghanaian and for that matter, our African kids to stay in school and get the best education they can get.
  
  You will be doing the whole continent a big favour.
  
  Can you do that, Joe?.
  
  Just tell our kids that this article was not meant for them but the kids in the most industrialized nations even where such chances can be likened to crapshoots. A big gamble if you asked me!!!!
  
  The only part of your article that made sense to me as an African, was the last paragraph.

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• Cofie 10 years ago

  YOU GET FREE EDUCATION AND CHURN OUT HIS NONSENSE!

  YOU GET FREE EDUCATION AND CHURN OUT HIS NONSENSE!

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• Daari 10 years ago

  cofie can't think and see things outside the box.Cofie is a dog chain seller

  cofie can't think and see things outside the box.Cofie is a dog chain seller

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• Military Man 10 years ago

  Do thinking and seeing things outside the box mean we should subject a whole generation of kids to baseless theories that only seem to hold true in one part of the world but can be very disastrous in another part of the world ...
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  Do thinking and seeing things outside the box mean we should subject a whole generation of kids to baseless theories that only seem to hold true in one part of the world but can be very disastrous in another part of the world?
  
  Read my comment above, Daari.

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• daigreenon fui thackley 10 years ago

  Very insightful and instructive. this then draws my attention to a current trend as regards the desire of individuals and institutions, including traditional authorities and chiefs to institute scholarship schemes to assist n ...
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  Very insightful and instructive. this then draws my attention to a current trend as regards the desire of individuals and institutions, including traditional authorities and chiefs to institute scholarship schemes to assist needy but brilliant student to further their educations. this initiative l believe was so much welcome and will certainly go a long way to provide timely lifeline to parents and wards who find themselves in this embarrassing predicament. it will further assist in reducing the needless waste in our scarce human resources occasioned by parents dearth and to a large extent society's inability to provide the needed succour to its citizens who are unable to help themselves. at this point l think Nana Asantihene Ababio deserves high commendation for this novell initiative he pioneered.
  one condition however which appears to be a huge stumbling block to the full realization of this objective is the caveat, ' needy but brilliant', and as we are all aware education is one of the basic or fundamental rights of all citizens and has nothing to do with ones level of intelligence or academic brilliance, save for a person's mental state of sanity. and so l find it very worrying to hear from all over the place from the various scholarships establishment inviting only 'needy but brilliant' students to apply for consideration. in my candid opinion and as precisely shown in the writeup it does not take only academic brilliance to excel in life and therefore believes that the most important criteria for awards of these scholarships should instead be ones passion or burning desire to do or acquire some skill or education where education here goes beyond convectional class room pedagogy to embrace all income earning economic skills or trade or vocation to enable one become a critically useful member of society because if the brainy one help to be useful then it is only too obvious that those that academically less endowed by reasoning need more help. so in effect just about everybody need an assistance or the other to become that useful in society which is why l believe these schemes be expanded to accommodate other such vulnerables in society so we can in the longterm effeciently maximize the benefits of our human resource endowment for the mutual good of all.

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