Gya: Teacher breaks pupil's arm in beating with broken chair part

It has been more than three months since eight-year-old Joel Punch's arm was broken after being beaten by a teacher with a part from a broken chair. But his family is yet to hear any word from the Ministry of Education even though it had said an investigation was underway.

The child's grandmother, Doreen McPherson, is also lamenting what she termed as the callous treatment she received from an official at the School's Welfare Depart-ment.

Punch, who attends the New Comenius Primary School, had his arm broken last November reportedly by his class teacher after he had chased one of his schoolmates around the schoolyard for taking his pencil.

Children ought to be disciplined in school, but not like this. This is plain and simply child abuse. The teacher ought to be fired and prosecuted, but nothing seems to be happening. Instead, education ministry officials are treating the child's grandmother with disdain.