Don’t victimize Chiana SHS students who abused Akuffo-Addo – Child Right to GES
Child Rights International has recommended the Ghana Education Service (GES) against persecuting some female Chiana Senior High School students who were included in a widely circulated video mocking President Akuffo-Addo.
The President and the people of Ghana have received guarantees from the school’s administration and GES that the incident will be thoroughly investigated and appropriately sanctioned.
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The management has asked parents of the identified students to help with the investigations.
Instead than victimizing the students, Bright Appiah, the executive director of Child Rights International, argues in an interview with Starr News that reform should be the goal.
“When children exhibit things that are abnormal, the interest of the state is to correct that abnormality. The system of correcting that behavior is not a kind of system that should bring victimization. It is not a kind of system that should tarnish the image of the children but it should be the system that will reform them and then rehabilitate them so that they can see things from the normal perspective in terms of how the state expects children will behave at the particular age and all that,” Mr. Appiah explained.
He contends that for the state to effectively handle children who behave abnormally, it must put in place sound systems.
“Looking at all the concerns raised by Ghana Education Service and also the judge of the region. It clearly points to the fact that something went wrong and that thing must be corrected. But what will be of concern to us is that the state itself sees that behaviour as abnormal and the process of engaging to correct them is what we call the rehabilitation program that needs to be instituted.”
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“So, if you even want to carry out any investigation then it is an investigation that should be carried out in a manner that will lead to the reformation and the rehabilitation of these children,” Mr. Appiah reiterated.
He demanded a thorough investigation into what could have led to the children’s strange behavior and statements.
Source: starrfm.com.gh