Exams and teaching practice

We are looking forward to our trip back to the UK for Christmas and hope to catch up with everyone and all the news!!

I have just finished marking 79 exam scripts for one of our two year one pre-service classes. I thought you might like some of the answers given to a question on the Professional Education Studies paper in the special needs section......

'Briefly explain the causes of physical disability'

Answers included the following:-

'Witchcraft whereby one may be bewitched.'

'That family planning is also another cause.'

'Mistreating, especially by the step-mother.'

'Going to small gods because they can give medicine to a woman who is pregnant to produce a boy or girl according to her choice and end up producing a disabled baby.'

'Natural calamities such as mountain erruptions when the hot magma comes out.'

'Some people get a disability because they were cursed.'

Rather sadly the following are correct answers that show the difference between being born here and the first world........

'Poor nutrition - children end up suffering from Kwashiorkor, Marasmus or Rickets.'

'Diseases like Polio or bad Malaria.'

This is a school near the college where I supervised the students on Teaching Practice. It is run by a church charity for disadvantaged children and orphans and unusually has very few puplis at the moment. I was told it was because it is built on rented land and the owners have given the school notice to vacate the land. It is called 'Rivers of Joy Primary School' and here are a couple of photos.