School incident reporting and dispute-resolution platform

This morning I followed up with the case from Starville School Abuja on the couple (Mr & Mrs Balogun) who slapped their teacher. The year 8 child has now been expelled from the school and the parents permanently banned from the school. What really happened was that the teacher (Mr. Etim) asked the boy to line up with other students. He was unruly and the teacher tapped his head. The student immediately pushed the teacher twice which resulted in the teacher slapping the boy. The school sanctioned the teacher with forfeit of a week salary and also issued him a final warning letter never to lay hands on any child or he get sacked. The school Principal (Mr. Makundu) apologized for over 30 minutes to the couple. The teacher also did apologize but the parents chose to take laws into their hands. We will need to talk further legal actions to ensure that this doesn’t become a norm with parents in our schools. If a parent doesn’t want their child to be disciplined, they should do home schooling.