wellmax:

Education in Nigeria is at its low ebb. I had τ̅☺ stop marking WAEC papers because of the disappointing performance of the students. I tell you no zone is spared, except for a few private schools. Many of them have answers written on the board for them during examination Äπϑ yet end up writing rubbish. SMH

gaddafe:

Why should a teacher beat up a student in the first place. What right is he(the teacher) given in the constitution of Nigeria to humiliate a student up till the extent of degrading him as to strip of in public. A 20 years old student for that matter.
I actually think the teacher got what he deserved,only that the father misused the power vested on him by the authority.

pato405:

the teacher should consider himself lucky he left with just beating. i'm NOT really sure he was beaten the way he deserves. being alive to tell the story should be his 'miracle of the year' hence, i'll advice him to give a testimony to the fact that he's alive to tell the story when next he's in church.

there's no justification to punish a child in that manner. public school teachers are just a bunch of nuisance. i attended one and I MEAN what i'm saying here. in the first place if they are competent, a supposedly ss3 student who cant fluently in plane and simple english articulate himself is enough evidence of their sheer ineptitude. what do you expect from a failed system without a proper structure to assess students. how the hell did such a student make it from jss1 to ss3? is he a magician?

like i stated earlier, i attended a public school (finished 1996) and i must confess that although i'm doing great today [by my personal assessments of academic prowess vis-a-vis being a medical practitioner and an academic researcher at the moment ] my GREATEST regret in life today is attending a public primary and secondary school. our teachers taught us in vernacular always and were always busy gossiping in their miserable offices. we lacked basic amenities any one would ideally expect a secondary school to have. I could count the number of times teachers delivered lectures on the fingers of one hand. as if that is not enough, students were flogged much more than cows from Sokoto to Lagos   .

I wish I had parents who could fight for me like this students up here, i swear, i'll be the one to first snatch my fathers riffle from him and practically blow the miserable teacher''s coagulated brains out of his thick skull and damn the consequences. inspite of leaving school over 16 years ago, each time I reflect and remember how we were assaulted with canes [sometimes doubled like this case] it sends shivers of 'terror'down my spine. it's  a traumatic experience and it's more or less have left a sort of psychological scar   . I remember a guy who was asked to lie postrate on his long desk, he was flogged like a criminal until he fell from the desk and broke his arm. another one was flogged till we saw all the layers of his his endodermis {inner skin layers looking white], if not for privacy reasons and the fact that i have decided to let go   , i'll post the name of this hopeless school i attended and name the teachers in question bacause i have refused to forget their names. i still watch out for the day i'll stumble into any of them. i will surely harass them i swear!!

our teachers were very lazy retards and only heavens know how they were recruited. 300 students sat for WAEC and only 9 of us passed english. please dont ask me my grade because i managed to eascape , hehehhehehe, we were 80 in science class but you wont believe it -- just 2, passed physics- our saving grace, we both formed a formidable private reading group. statistics for the other subjects were equally miserable if not worse! yet, the dimwitted moro0ns who call themselves teachers summon the balls to flog a child.

i dont intend sending a child to public school ooooo, but if any cretin or slo[i]w[/i]poke dare touch my child, i swear, his ordeal in my hands will make headlines in all Nigerian newspapers, because i'm really feeling vindictive o!!!!!

gaddafe:

Why should a teacher beat up a student in the first place. What right is he(the teacher) given in the constitution of Nigeria to humiliate a student up till the extent of degrading him as to strip of in public. A 20 years old student for that matter.
I actually think the teacher got what he deserved,only that the father misused the power vested on him by the authority.

lovejo:

Some igbo guys are defending the boy now, and if i say something they will say we are tribalistic, they are both trying to portray the teacher as bad with their argument which can not be substantiated .

lovejo:

Some igbo guys are defending the boy now, and if i say something they will say we are tribalistic, they are both trying to portray the teacher as bad with their argument which can not be substantiated .

lovejo:

Some igbo guys are defending the boy now, and if i say something they will say we are tribalistic, they are both trying to portray the teacher as bad with their argument which can not be substantiated .

Okija_juju:

To all of you supporting the teacher, why did the teacher do the following;

- Ask the boy to strip in front of the whole school!? What was this supposed to achieve?! Was that in a bid to mentally destroy the boy?! Where in the teachers handbook did it give power to teachers to strip a student Unclad in the middle of school?!

- Why did the teacher flog the child till the point that he broke his skin and caused the boy an injjury?! If that teacher were abroad, he would be looking at jail time.

- Why did the teacher have to double the cane?! Was one cane not enough discipline for the young boy?!

- By what punishment scale did the teacher determine his choice of discipline?!


Before you condenm the boy and his father, remember as well that you may have been that child or he may have been your son. I know two cases of kids that got blinded by their teachers in the middle of flogging them, and one of the girls sef was not guilty of anything. Nigerians raise children like animals, and when they start acting like what you've raised them to be, you all start shouting. Flogging should anly be used as a capital punishment in all public schools. the board of Education needs to publish a punishment scale and distribute to teachers and students alike. I remember a teacher that flogged us for failing a test. LIKE SERIOUSLY!!  If we failed a test, shouldnt the teacher be the one to be flogged as that would ordinarily mean he failed to pass his message across to the students.


The boys father did what I would have done, you flog my child like an animal, I will treat you like an animal and withdraw my kid from that school. 

But Ebuka himself came to the rescue as he claimed he was 18 years even though investigation by the state Ministry of Education revealed that he was over 20 years

lovejo:

Some igbo guys are defending the boy now, and if i say something they will say we are tribalistic, they are both trying to portray the teacher as bad with their argument which can not be substantiated .

ikechiozo:

Another yoruba lunatic wants to drag us into tribal row,  weere

IYA NGBALI:

is that all you have to say and is that the issue being treated here?Spare the rod and spoil the child _{hisses and walks away}the thing tire me o

In Matthew 5:29-30, Christ states, “And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. And if your right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.”

pato405:

the teacher should consider himself lucky he left with just beating. i'm NOT really sure he was beaten the way he deserves. being alive to tell the story should be his 'miracle of the year' hence, i'll advice him to give a testimony to the fact that he's alive to tell the story when next he's in church.

there's no justification to punish a child in that manner. public school teachers are just a bunch of nuisance. i attended one and I MEAN what i'm saying here. in the first place if they are competent, a supposedly ss3 student who cant fluently in plane and simple english articulate himself is enough evidence of their sheer ineptitude. what do you expect from a failed system without a proper structure to assess students. how the hell did such a student make it from jss1 to ss3? is he a magician?

like i stated earlier, i attended a public school (finished 1996) and i must confess that although i'm doing great today [by my personal assessments of academic prowess vis-a-vis being a medical practitioner and an academic researcher at the moment ]

I can also understand why Ibrahim Bolomope took it personal. He was a former teacher, NUT and NLC president of Oyo state.

in my opinion, the teacher deserved every bit of the beating by that student.
There are ways to punish children without being brutal.Did you hear the boy? The teacher doubled the cane! He beat him till he fell down? is he an animal? What happened to clearing grass or sweeping the entire school yard, or detention for a couple of hours?
i accept his father went overboard.
Teachers do not have a right to beat up anyone like that!

onyxo76:

i thought i usually over react to poor students' performances. but i think am justified, a 20yr old still in ss3 when guys in bowen of his age will have started nysc.its such a shame, i see a lot of undergraduates where i work wasting their lives on facebook, and bb messaging. i ve seen students walking in a dark bush path pinging and falling into a gutter!
Gone are the days when we craved for pacesseter novels and hardly chase, i wonder if students of nowadays read any other materials other than complete sports etc. at interviews i have had cause to almost weep when i hear the quality of spoken english by these brats!!
God help us!!!

ceejayluv:

i don't blame you anyway. You are a product of our failed system as well.

eGuerrilla:


Given the circumstances which have now come to light, I certainly would have intervened as this father did, although without bringing the good office of my employers into disrepute.
It is now clear this teacher set out to humiliate an over-aged student in a most disapproving manner.
The intent was undoubtedly to inflict as much pain as possible, as opposed to rehabilitating errant behaviour.

ikechiozo:

Another yoruba lunatic wants to drag us into tribal row,  weere

Rastamann:

Was the boy the only one punished? [/b]He went to call the father because he was a custom officer. [b]What about those with no father or whose fathers are artisans? Inasmuch as I dislike the use of corporal punishment in schools, we should not support such acts of indiscipline exhibited by the boy and his custom officer father.

ambyzown:

God save our health and medical system if this is the quality of medical practitioners we have.

stildude:

Yes, I agree with those that have seen through the veil of tribalism in this issue. However, it was definitely started by the Oyo house of assembly in the first place. A house of yorubas sitting on a yoruba vs ibo matter. what will you expect. They were all quick to paint the ss3 boy bad. Even the miserable report is not balanced. One of the house members who tried to see things from a different angle was shouted down by his colleagues. I wonder if any of those members would have reacted differently had it been their child that was the one humilliated like that. Now NBA Oyo wants to fight the fight on behalf of the teacher. No one is condenming the  babaric act of the teacher. His action (if you could call it punishment at all) was tribally motivated. he has been beating other boys before the igbo boy's turn, but when he saw the igbo boy, he had to double the cane to increase the boy's pain. Even when the boy fell to the ground, would he leave him alone, no, he had to flog him so hard till his skin broke and would only be satisfied until he saw the teenager's blood.

Howbeit, the Father of the boy went a bit far with the shooting stuff.

For those feigning surprise at an ss3 student not speaking the queen's kind of english, be real. it didn't start today, in my time, girls spoke better english than most of the kids from boys school. But surprisingly, when it came to inter school english competition, boys almost always won. There was this girl in my street that used to intimidate us with english, but when WAEC results were out, I flogged her so badly. You must understand that there is practical physics and biology, but no practical english in school. Only theories and filling the blank. It gets worse if you communicate at home or 'area'  in your native tongue.  You would be surprised that the boy in question would pass english very well in his exams. moreso, he may have been intimidated by the audience. So many adults will freeze and loose their communication ability when it comes to public speaking, howmuch more a boy. I also didn't like how one of the respondents in the report said govt should do better things with its money. I would like to know the english or other subjects status of her children first. wayo woman!. All they want to achieve is to embarass the boy and his father mostly because he is a non yoruba.

I served and taught in Oyo, tewure to be precise, all the students in the ss3 class could not comprehend simple expressions in english apart from one kid that usally come in from ogbomoso. Not even the teachers or some of the LAUTECH students I came across. You don't speak yoruba nothing for  you with lauthech girls. As if beating  a teacher is new in Oyo, back then in 2000/2001, students from one secondary school close to the Lautech used to beat up their teachers, they even used voodoo to brutalize teahers there. They were very feared even by the Lautech students.

Now this is one of the stories I see in American movies or read about where whites and blacks storm the court house with signs defending their interests. in this case. the yorubas are whites, and the ibos are black. let's see which side public sentiment will sway, unfortunately for the ibos, like the blacks, they are at a disadvantage here. The whites (yorubas) own the judges, the assembly, the NBA and the social media like Nairaland, and they are playing at home. Will there be an offset?

pato405:

GBAM! on spot! he's another imbecilic cretin.

what makes you feel his colleagues at the customs intentionally went to the school to assault the teacher. they must have seen the extent of the teachers folly and probably decided to go hear him out. apparently,  it's possible they got there and the teacher sounded rude or unrepentant, tempers flared without caution, courtesy was hurled to the gutters and what else do you expect - Bosom-for-tat of course. why don't you see it in that light?

The emboldened portion of your post is conjecture at best.
As an aggrieved parent, rolling with a team several man deep only portends one likely outcome.

eGuerrilla:

IYA NGBALI:

is that all you have to say and is that the issue being treated here?Spare the rod and spoil the child _{hisses and walks away}the thing tire me o

lovejo:

Some igbo guys are defending the boy now, and if i say something they will say we are tribalistic, they are both trying to portray the teacher as bad with their argument which can not be substantiated .