FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Fabakary B. Ceesay
8 March 2008
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.
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