Omega Schools teachers dismayed by Achimota School decision not to admit Rastafarian students

[@casterncharger1361]

City News thank you for covering this story everyday👏👏 You have a new fan

[@wisdomakpaloo]

For all you know, the headmistress of Achimota school is wearing some artificial hair called Brazilian hair and yet she sacked an innocent boy with natural hair from getting his education.

[@czogg99]

Amen bruh. Hypocrites the whole lot of them.

[@rahimjibril1332]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki gyimie

[@rahimjibril1332]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki gyimie

[@kobshadow]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki and @THEOPHILUS MENSAH. This is the problem with the brainwashing of the blackman that has gone on for decades. Listen to your response to a very good point made by the OP! Just because the headmistress isn't a student makes it OK for an African to discriminate against her own natural hair whilst wearing the hair of some Brazilian/Indian/Caucasian/Asian etc. which never really looks good on an African else we would naturally have that kind of hair? Brainwashed into hating your skin colour, natural hair etc. so the African then ends up spending a lot of money on creams to bleach their skin, buy fake hair from the oppressor and then have their kids grow up with inferiority complexes thinking their skin and hair are ugly/dirty. Until we wake up and change these archaic rules which are meant to oppress and make us feel inferior, we will forever remain slaves in our own countries even though we claim to be an independent nation. Those rules have nothing to do with enforcing discipline, but put in place by colonial masters to ensure we continue hating ourselves. How else can they keep controlling us from afar? Wake up!

[@empiretvgh]

😂😂😂

[@yeshuarising3532]

One of these international schools we have in Ghana should extend scholarships to them...cus it seems certain educational institutions are still living in the colonial era.

[@bilybos3715]

It's just ridiculous what they are doing to this kids, this country is soo backwards, some still think like they are in the stone ages.

[@elizabethappiah5821]

no matter which school anyone chose as long you focus your smartness will never go away. Forget about Achimota and move on. That school is even a coronial school. Try and look for a modern 21 century school

[@hajiahajo1760]

I am a Ghanaian African woman who have been living in Europe for over 30 years. My family and I have been through endless discrimination and prejudice to the extent that it impacted badly on our lives. I am therefore very sad to see this happening to the Rastafarians in Ghana 🇬🇭 ( A land of freedom and justice). Muslim girls and women are going through similar prejudice and discrimination. Please journalist can you try to educate the general public that the Rastafarian boys' hair is not the usual rasta fashion staement but rather a religions requirement, same as how Muslim girls and women must cover their hair. So please beautiful people of Ghana it's not as simple as the boys just cutting off their hair its deeper than that.

[@frankincensefoundation9389]

Wow that's my school 💪💪💪💪Omega 😍😍every child metters 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@jadna5305]

I'm even crying watching the interview. A 17yrs old boy who has big plan of representing his SHS is a legend we shouldn't play with. Oh our motherland Ghana when r we going to grow. Tyrone will make Achimota schoolbow down in shame one-day

[@gladysokine9296]

I said exactly so

[@bilybos3715]

Afia you are asking when your motherland Ghana is going to grow? News flash for you, they are growing rapidly, but unfortunately backwards towards how people were living in the stone ages.

[@kwabenatree]

Grow up? Do you support gay rights in Ghana if not they you are just like them.

[@nuwaveentertainment2012]

Rastafari lives on.

[@ishmealmohammed2041]

Achimota lives on😂😂😂

[@deffkidd9088]

this shit keeps breaking my heart

[@bilybos3715]

It's just sad and a bunch of stupidity that this people in charge are doing to the welfare of this kids.

[@deffkidd9088]

@@bilybos3715 ikr

[@missnaa6759]

Sometimes, there must b room 4 compromise. He is not jst any ordinary boy, but an intelligent boy as that

[@aatika_HR]

This is even small.....in my shs....the best student who even represented the school in science n math did not complete the payment of all his fees b4 completing...... They blocked his results....so sad.

[@PHILIPFORDWOO]

What headline is this?

[@joycentow4104]

Ghana stop these unnecessary activities Ghana think of the future

[@mikelorydmx8173]

Ghana has no future,too many fools there.

[@robitvgh5638]

Akofu Addo Government is a failure...dis will discourage diaspora to relocate to Ghana

[@bilybos3715]

Exactly, you're right on point and l just don't understand what their hair has to do with their academics.

[@ih561]

Obviously the school is in Ghana but not managed by Ghanaians. Those there are just shw3 so mames. That is why even the supposed president is muted on the issue. Nana is working for his puppet master.

[@sweetbadd9852]

@@ih561 I've have always thought the same about the Muppet president.

[@derrickdankyi4269]

Samson ! He is the new Samson!

[@stephendrake3301]

it's very sad

[@Seminarylearning]

Wow so you are telling me that in Africa they are discriminating against people in Africa 😏 we in the USA see this kind of discrimination all the time among black people in neighborhoods, schools and workforce. What reason for going back to Africa if there is discrimination there as well. I can't imagine what will happen if Black American students came.

[@oseiboakye5749]

black american students are respected more than the blacks there

[@Enkaybe]

They would stupidly make exeptions for them because they're from America..but if its a Ghanaian,just as we are seeing they won't make any exeptions no matter what...infact if you have a child,don't bring your child to any public school in Ghana,the public educational system is very weak, and those schools are the so-called A class schools and recognised schools I can't even imagine, take it from me!

[@portiaaffram5176]

how I wish I had money, I would have flown them to abroad to school there

[@kwekujunior2600]

Stop saying prestigious Achimota school. There is nothing prestigious about that school joker

[@sharellmaureen9983]

This is so not ok, we Africans need to do better as a people

[@ubiatv8391]

Hair always regrows especially in young men and women. Just trim the hair as required, excel in your education, graduate and grow your hair in any fashion you want. What will happen if other religions also ask for exceptions. It’s us the adults who are making a big deal out of nothing.

[@AlkebulanJahmiah]

You still don't get it don't you... this is not fashion purposes its cultural and self identity thing as african

[@rahimjibril1332]

You are a big fool

[@ubiatv8391]

@@AlkebulanJahmiah I may not get it. But do you know that the leaders of the Ghana education services didn’t just one day wake up, slap their buttocks and came up with the rule that students must wear their hair in a particular fashion. Same way that the US highway patrol officials didn’t just arbitrarily come up with speed limits. It is because of things that have happened in the past. The Ghanaian board of educators came up with that rule to promote uniformity and conformity. Unless his hair grants him some extra neuronal capacity to excel in his academic work I think this is a non issue. Let him conform and let’s focus on what is more important. We need to be focusing on graduating students that can build the next generation of stealth fighter aircraft etc

[@ubiatv8391]

@@rahimjibril1332 we are sometimes too emotional as people. We are focusing on hair when students in Asia are focusing on how to build bigger and more productive factories. They will continue to prosper so that they can grant Ghana and Jamaica snake loans

[@AlkebulanJahmiah]

@@ubiatv8391 Well said however the law must apply across all boards no exemption.. well mix race kids and whites are allow to keep their hair and they claimed is their natural hair isn't it a laughable and disturbing disgraceful to black people and those stupid laws were implemented by colonials oppressors same goes to curriculum misleading education system that's more reasons Ghanaians and Africans as whole are suffering from identity crisis problems because 90% of education system are Europeans system... The mental colonials syndrome is real

[@almasyalmasy8442]

It hurt me so much how they discriminate Tyron just for his dreadlocks. Africa following their colonizers in discriminating their owns.

[@iddrisumubarakg5207]

Am really ashamed of being a Ghanaian

[@theusurper]

Still don't understand why they're not admitting him....This discrimination doesn't make sense

[@brayanwalker4626]

After watching this,I guess there should be exceptions. Yes students must shave low and keep their hair clean but this’s someone who has lived all his life with the dreadlocks.it’s part of him now.Judging by sight is prejudice and discriminatory

[@Enkaybe]

Ikr..people are failing to understand that its the persons identity and culture 🤦‍♀️not like its for fun or smthn.. Just like someone doesn't choose to be born into a Muslim or Christian family..this is just discrimination

[@adrianagriffith7167]

Went to Achimota school myself. Horrible experience, not quite sure why schools in Ghana make women cut their hair, really barbaric, if they could they would have female cutting their genitals off. Which is still a practice still going on in some African countries. Backward place.

[@evao1592]

As an old akora I agree with you

[@romeoskillful7472]

Rastaman is not a bad person Africa have to be wise now

[@akwesipilato5833]

So So Sad

[@kojoike7111]

I am surprised natural dreadlocks by men or women is frowned upon but rasta using these expensive wigs by women is fashionable and normal...asem ooo

[@lincolnvlogs8965]

THIS WILL COME BACK TO BITE GHANA

[@nanaboat2478]

Rules are rules, full stop. We are all religious, so if all of us practice our religion in the schools this is only going to detract from what schools are really for. How would you feel if you went into an office where the father was the boss with all that hair. Are they really going to jeopardise this boy’s education cos of this politics over his hair? Almost all schools in Ghana will come to the same conclusion if he went to these schools.

[@Sav.Age.]

You’re so backwards!! Don’t Muslims pray in schools? Don’t we, Christians, pray and have our activities in schools? Short skirts aren’t allowed in shs but go round the schools and see for yourself how girls alter their skirts..what are you saying? Get knowledge and he open minded. White people and mixed-race people should also cut their hair then! Come again with stronger facts! Travel and see!🙄

[@tettehnoah2591]

What is this

[@lovestylestudios8053]

They’re not denying him admission because of his hair, they’re just asking him to follow the rules

[@oseiboakye5749]

which rules. rules that don't even impact our lives. arent the same achimota students in government stealing. we claim to be pure but we are wicked. leave him alone. why don't they tell the exchange students to cut off their hair before coming. rules are rules and they should also cut their hair even if they will be there for just 3 months. hypocrites

[@bfc3078]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki what prayer exactly ? If everyone was following the rules then that’s fine but when the rules are altered for others but not everyone then we don’t need to follow the rules.They are denying the kid because they refuse to even look at his grades.

[@oseiboakye5749]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki same as you

[@bfc3078]

@Borushiki Otsutsuki if rules are changed for one group it should be changed for all

[@lovestylestudios8053]

@@oseiboakye5749 there are exceptions to every rule. The main exception to this rule is if the individual has a health condition which could be triggered owing to the cut hair. The reason for the uncut and permed hairs of foreigners could be falsified health claims backed by documents with or without the involvement of the authorities but until proven conclusions can’t be drawn

[@adrianagriffith7167]

Achimita school is a horrible place

[@alimi-yaoadam7838]

It hurts a lot that we can do this silly thing to our own.

[@kofipapa2886]

Adrian do you go to your place of work dressed any how you choose? What if all the other students chose also decide that they are going to practise their faith in school? It is in that regard that our school's motto is "that all shall be one." The school environment should be a place of training and conformity and not an avenue for demonstration of beliefs and spirituality.

[@kwesidadze4239]

If most Rastafarians had good socioeconomic record, this wouldn't have been an issue. I know there are good ones though. Most parents and teachers don't want their children to be influenced by the majority of Rastafarians they have seen. Talking about discrimination, I guess most of you in support of the Rastafarians have never heard a Rastafarian talking about other religions. If you have, you won't speak on their behalf. My advice for Rastafarians is that, let your children go through private schools and become responsible people with clean teeth and very soon everyone will accept you into every position and government school. I know some of you have clean teeth. No one should reply my comment and say " How about other Non- Rastafarians with smoked teeth?". They have their own discrimination!

[@mikelorydmx8173]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ ooh koo blacky🤦‍♂️

[@juanpueblo316]

Tyrone is a SHINING Star ✨..... He is set to be a Leader....

[@princebenjamin7330]

I feel ashamed that we African are discrimination against ourselves. Mean while the head mistress of Afhimota school is wearing artificial hair. How can a school RULES be bigger than the Constitution of GHANA??

[@princedonkor2932]

I’m very disappointed in CitiTV for this caption. You are the ones using the word discrimination. The school never discriminated on him. I guess you allow your employees to do anything they want in your organization. And you don’t have any rules in your organization.

[@AbbieOwusu]

I want to know the meaning of discrimination in your opinion? There is absolutely nothing wrong with the caption. No rules in Ghana is superior to the constitution of Ghana. That child has the right to education likewise any other Ghanaian.

[@princedonkor2932]

@@AbbieOwusu discrimination, an unfair treatment of people due to their race, sexuality etc. the school isn’t discriminating. You see you fail to realize that the constitution allows for institutions to make their own rules to govern themselves. The school isn’t saying he should stop being a Rastafarian, they just said get your hair trimmed and attend the school. You fail to also realize that appearance is also part of SHS qualification criteria, not just your grades. Because the school needs to keep a certain standard and so these need to be adhered to. If I may ask, Why don’t you were slippers and shorts to a job interview? If the constitution of Ghana supersede all rules, it allows me freedom of movement, so why can’t I enter rooms labeled ‘staff only’?

[@AbbieOwusu]

@@princedonkor2932 Achimota School did discriminate. Since it is a rule and being adhered to strictly, then there should be no exemptions but what happened?They were able to admit students with the same style but of different race. In every rule, there are exemptions nd the child's case should be taken into consideration. Achimota School's law can't be above the constitution of Ghana.

[@princedonkor2932]

@@AbbieOwusu Yh I understand and so the school then should be called to the public knowledge of admitting foreign students with long hair. Then we would the reason to which they broke their own rules for foreign students. And any necessary actions should be taken afterward. if they were mistaken then we cannot continue in that same mistake.

[@AbbieOwusu]

@@princedonkor2932 I agree with you

[@vocabularymillionaire]

It's high time we made changes to some of these old colonial rules in our schools to be in sync with a modern way of life. Most of the arguments or the theories as to why he's being refused admission into the school in my opinion don't hold water. The funny irony of this is, even the British who fashioned out those rules back then for the Achimota school are even admitting people with all types of different hairstyles into schools on their land. If this is not an implicit bias then I don't know what else it could be.

[@ishmealmohammed2041]

😂😂😂😂this case dey funny me. Massa dreadlocks don't develop a country. Keep your hair let's keep our Achimota. Nonsense 😎

[@francagana]

Yh. I know right. Short hair has really developed Ghana. Can't you see with our short hair, we have managed to make Ghana very clean and corruption free. Can't you see we have managed to eliminate all schools under trees and provided potable to all communities in the country. We don't even need aid from those countries that keep their hairs. We are more intelligent than them. I agree with you.

[@ishmealmohammed2041]

@@francagana please kindly tell me which ethnic groups in Ghana have dreadlocks as their identity? Please am waiting for your answer.

[@dannybrown317]

@@francagana spot on Agana.

[@wealthywoman8234]

@@francagana Thank you my sister, what's all this rubbish, discriminating against their own. SAD

[@matildafinnah9963]

@@wealthywoman8234 In that case we are also discriminating against our young men and young ladies because they rather not cut their hair, they do it because it's the rule. Why is that soooo hard for people to understand.

[@debrahvlogs4284]

Masa if you go to Rome do what the Romans do

[@ghsense2626]

What about the Lebanese and Whites who get admitted to the school. Do they cut their hair? Black man discriminating against their own.

[@ishmealmohammed2041]

@@ghsense2626 are they Ghanaians? We don't want mpese mpese in our schools too is it by forces?

[@trueteller007krobea5]

He is one of us. a Ghanaian .so which Rome are u talking about. U guys welcome Indian gods wigs than our own. Hypocrisy.

[@ishmealmohammed2041]

@@trueteller007krobea5 not in SHS my guy. Achimota is bigger than them. Achimota was here before him and will be here after him. Nonsense. Respect the rules or bye bye. The religious fanatism display by these guys show they can be terrorist given the chance. Rasta ISIS.

[@paakwegyir3165]

I hear the romans used to sacrifice little children and eat their own excreta in the name of purity. Now when you go to Rome will you eat your own excreta based on your theory that do what the romans do? Certainly not.. So we don't do what romans do when you go to Rome..That theory does not work always. We need to look beyond that when it comes to education. I wonder if if a white child goes to achimota they will ask them to cut their hair short like Ghanaians children.

[@TheWisdomBank]

The Rastafarian community deserves a lot more respect than they are accorded now. However, I place the blame squarely under their feet cos they need to build up economic power to earn that respect. See my full video commentary: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZuxY4SNZr15kMk