I’ve been studying the book of Daniel for September & I still find myself pondering this question:
Where was DANIEL when Shad, Mesh & Abed were asked to bow??? 😭
I know my Daniel would NEVER bow, but where was he?? 🥹
He was a high-ranking official & should have been present right?
Did he travel? Did he hide?? WHAT HAPPENED? 😭😂
The reason I always hesitate to comment on issues of students’ BECE grades is to avoid committing a fundamental attribution error.
The tendency is to always blame children for poor performance without considering the situational circumstances that may have contributed to those results.
I am living proof of this.
I got aggregate 27 after BECE and it was so good that my father had mother make me guinea fowl light soup . And if you know northern fathers and their guinea fowls, you know this is was a big deal.
But I had only one teacher for the whole three years of JSS. He taught Mathematics and Science. We didn’t have teachers for the remaining eight subjects. We had no textbooks, no desks and no electricity.
The year group ahead of us had only one person who passed and proceeded to secondary school. The rest failed.
The only handwritten notes we had for some of the other subjects were handovers from previous batches of students, dating back five years. Those students had one or two teachers for the other subjects, who gave them notes before quitting along the way. That was what we depended on.
Mind you, those notes didn’t even help them pass. They failed too. But at least, they offered a reference point for what JSS Agric, RME, Social Studies or English looked like.
Imagine merely laughing at me for getting aggregate 27 without considering the full context and the extenuating circumstances.
At the time, the cutoff point for all senior high schools was aggregate 30. Only three of us, from a class of 20, got within the mark and went to secondary school (aggregates 25, 27, 30). The rest either went back to JSS or ended their education altogether.
I got admitted to my beloved Kanton Secondary School, and in my SSS class, I had the worst aggregate. No yawa lol.
But after three years of secondary school, I got aggregate 13 and went straight to Legon.
At Legon, I got a scholarship and went to America to complete my Bachelor's degree.
I know the grades sound bad on paper, but sometimes, those terrible grades are a product of circumstances far beyond the child. And sometimes, an opportunity at a good secondary school can be the game changer.
So, don’t laugh at a kid with aggregate 35 who wants to go to Presec.
Investigate the circumstances that produced that 35. That child may have been performing at the absolute limit of the opportunities available to them.
The context is important. Perhaps you give them a different environment, better teachers, better resources and a proper opportunity to learn, and you may see a completely different student.
Sometimes, the grade tells you what happened. It doesn’t tell you why.
“I have regretted my actions and repented, so Ghanaians should help me raise GH¢120,000 for hip surgery.”
— A young woman known as Nancy appeals for financial support for hip surgery, saying she has turned away from her past lifestyle involving multiple intimate encounters and substance abuse, which she says contributed to her current condition.
I’m fucking crying bro her dad was a Sudanese warlord who abducted hundreds of child soldiers. Dozens of them died of starvation according to this report by Human Rights Watch
She was posting pics of her Dad on Instagram this week
You could not even make this up
Reality has outpaced satire, we are in a simulation.
🧐 Bir veri analiz sitesinin, UEFA Şampiyonlar Ligi için yaptığı skor tahminleri gündem oldu.
✅ AEK maçı hariç, bugün oynanan tüm maçların skorları tuttu.
I have this story that my mum told me: one evening, when she was in Guinea, my dad had left her by the roadside because he had to pop into the garage. As she was pregnant with me, she was afraid something might happen to her on the road, but my dad told her to set off anyway 1/2
POLICE URGE PUBLIC TO DISREGARD FALSE FLYER ON USE OF AIRPODS AND EARPHONES WHILE DRIVING
The Ghana Police Service would like to urge the public to disregard a flyer circulating on social media, purporting to be a public safety announcement from the Service,
Moment Nii Lartey Kwashie III, King of Lartebiokorshie, officially selected a lady at her workplace to serve as an Asafoanye as part of his initiative to appoint traditional leaders to oversee various communities within the Lartebiokorshie Traditional Area, including Lartebiokorshie, Soko, IBE, and surrounding communities.
She was picked up by the elders of the traditional council to undergo the customary rites ahead of her official installation.
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Moment Nii Lartey Kwashie III, King of Lartebiokorshie, officially selected a lady at her workplace to serve as an Asafoanye as part of his initiative to appoint traditional leaders to oversee various communities within the Lartebiokorshie Traditional Area, including Lartebiokorshie, Soko, IBE, and surrounding communities.
She was picked up by the elders of the traditional council to undergo the customary rites ahead of her official installation.
[🎥 Zygote]
In my daughter’s class, on birthdays, parents buy gifts for the whole class. Then one day, some twins were having their birthday, and their parents shared a scooter for the whole class. Each would cost between 75-100k. And they shared it for a class of 30+ pupils.
Thank God, say na during the December holiday we dey do our own birthday. 😅😅
This family is based in the UK but built a mansion in Lagos with no occupant. If you are going to abandon a house in Nigeria then someone should be able to inspect and clean it regularly for you. If someone did, they would have discovered this issue.
This is also one of my concerns with Solar panels. When holes are drilled on a roof without proper sealing, this is the outcome.