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Momodou
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 Posted - 08 Mar 2008 : 21:12:44
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Ugly Scene At ICE
By Fabakary B. Ceesay
Reports have it that on Wednesday 5 March students in grades 10 and 12 at the Institute for Continuing Education, known as ICE were involved in a brawl with their teachers and administrators. The said incident has prompted an abrupt closure of the school till further notice. According to our source, the pandemonium ensued when the school authorities insisted that the students pay their second term exams fees warning that those that fail to do so would not be allowed to seat to the exams. Our source stated that the move did not go down well with the students who insisted that they would seat to their exams even without paying.
It is also reported that students also put it to the authorities that they are yet to receive their first term exam results which they have paid for. The reports added that the students questioned the authorities on the reasons for paying terminal exam fees when they are paying school fees.
According to some students, the exchanges soon intensified and the acrimony soon transformed into a brawl. The same source said that what subsequently happened was too unpleasant to witness.
Teachers and the students could be seen exchanging blows on each other. However, our sources could not confirm any casualties during the brawl. This reporter visited the school campus yesterday but neither the teachers nor the students could be seen as classes were suspended. I am yet to have the opportunity to speak to an administrator or a teacher.
Foroyaa made several phone calls to the regional education office to seek for their comments on the matter but to no avail. Both the director and the chief executive officer were said to be engaged in a programme in Banjul.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 28/2008 6-7 March 2008
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lurker
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Posted - 09 Mar 2008 : 13:00:05
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| where is the ICE school , please.? |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 09 Mar 2008 : 14:16:15
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| I think its somewhere in Pipeline KMC. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Mar 2008 : 14:34:35
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The worst is yet to happen in this school. In 2004 or 2005, there was a gunshot incident there. That was also a brawl that involve a student , he was sent home , just for the boy to run home and return to school to shoot his opponent. The whole school had to run for their lives that afternoon. He was later arrested with the owner of the double barrel rifle.
This is school where the greater part of the girls sew their uniforms as CHA-NGAL and use HASSAL/LERRAL. Some of the boys even smoked indian hemp by the school premises.
What has happened is gross indiscipline. Since when have students taking thelaw into their hands?
The students should have reported matter to their parents/guardians/sponsors who are the right people to take on the school authorities.
As a parent and an educator this is a school that i would have never taught in the first place let alone my kids attend.
The pioneers/owners of the school had good intentions initially to help out those kids with low grades to gain access to atleast some high school as it was known then.
I must confess however the school had produced some very good individual results both at O and A level. |
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MADIBA
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Mar 2008 : 14:44:33
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Originally posted by Momodou
I think its somewhere in Pipeline KMC.
It is in Kanifing by the Riders for Health and close to the Gamtel training school. |
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lurker
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Posted - 10 Mar 2008 : 10:34:08
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not the business college near mama's and cotton club- cos i know there is big trouble behind the scenes there
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eire
Zimbabwe
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Posted - 20 Mar 2008 : 01:11:53
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| How sad to read about the goings on at ICE....... The students have taken over running the school. Animal Farm re-enacted once more... What has happened to the Management of the school??. Is the Management of the School, afraid to intervene to end internal strife,,,There is obviously no discipline in the school.. Is there CP still used in schools?? If it was then I feel these unruly and subordinate students would not behave so badly.?? In Armitage in the old days we were sent to the head and came away from his office chastened individuals with sore bottoms... we rarely repeated the offence and respected the rules and the authority of our teachers. |
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jambo
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Posted - 20 Mar 2008 : 12:25:41
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I thought ICE was a vocational school and was for students who could not find other schools. Students who go to Armitage had to jump hoops to get in to that school, you do not mess with that level of discipline, also Armitage delivered an excellent timetable and students scores tests.
ICE not so. |
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eire
Zimbabwe
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Posted - 30 Mar 2008 : 15:41:12
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Jambo. Point well made in comparing Armitage and ICE, or should that be pointing out the differences. But, that was the Armitage of old, of our day 25 or more years ago. But our beloved Armitage has fallen on hard times recently and had its own troubles and strikes etc. The standard in the school has fallen dramatically and the results are poor. Is this true of most schools nowadays? If so, what a pity!!
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jambo
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Posted - 31 Mar 2008 : 14:15:11
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i am always amazed at ARmitage and the falling standards and have wondered why.
I visited it and yes there is few things that could be done better, but it has gone alumni, and is well supported buy sponsorship from all corners of the world.
I wonder venture that it is the standard of teachers, Very few were Gambian??, the rest were made up of other African nationals why is that. |
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eire
Zimbabwe
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Posted - 02 Apr 2008 : 22:48:43
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| iambo,Yes, the head of Armitage as currently a Ghanaian and lots of teachers are from that country. I have no problem with that as they have a high standard of education and are good teachers. but there needs to be a good quota of local teachers also. also the point needs to be made again Armitage was a very disciplined school 30 yrs ago and CP was used extensively.....the student behaved for fear of the cane.....right or wrong?? |
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