Parent beats up teacher for caning his daughter
What you need to know:
- The District Inspector of School Mr Andrew Omunu on Monday confirmed the incident to this reporter.
- Mr Omunu further noted that after the incident, he called an emergency PTA and School Management Committee meeting at the school on Saturday, where Mr Okot was dismissed from the position of PTA vice chairman.
APAC -A teacher at Amun Primary School in Apac Sub County is nursing injuries inflicted on him by a parent who raided a Primary Seven classroom where he was conducting a Mathematics test and assaulted him.
Mr Ray Okot, who is the Vice Chairman of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) beat Mr Darius Okello and dragged him out of the classroom to the compound as pupils watched.
Fellow trainers and some pupils rescued Mr Okello from Mr Okot who was preparing to rain more blows on the teacher.
The incident is said to have happened last Friday after Okot’s daughter ran to their home crying accusing the teacher to have beaten her for failing a math test.
The District Inspector of School Mr Andrew Omunu on Monday confirmed the incident to this reporter.
He said that on the fateful day, the teacher gave Math test to P7 candidates and warned that anyone pupil who would fail to get 50 per cent and above would be given two strokes of the cane.
“Four pupils failed to get the 50 marks and the teacher caned them twice as he had warned but one pupil who is the daughter of the vice chairman of PTA ran home while crying and told her father that the teacher had severely beaten her for failing the Math test. She also claimed that she had fainted in the process,” Mr Omunu said. “Her father in a state of fury ran to the school and started raining blows on the teacher. As l speak, the teacher is still nursing injuries inflicted on him by the parent,” he added.
Mr Omunu further noted that after the incident, he called an emergency PTA and School Management Committee meeting at the school on Saturday, where Mr Okot was dismissed from the position of PTA vice chairman.
“This was a very embarrassing incident. I am sounding a very stern warning to some of these parents who think they can fight a teacher before the pupils and get away with it. We are following up the matter with police and the parent will be prosecuted in court accordingly,” he said.
“We cannot allow some parents to continue undermining the efforts of our teachers who are working tirelessly to educate and transform some of the indiscipline pupils brought up in bad environment from their homes,” Mr Omunu warned.
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