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Beaten Pupil Has Brain Concussion

April 24, 2007

cemab.gifTeacher for the Akhaltsikhe Public School # 3 beat the pupil and the incidents resulted into the brain concussion of the child. The teacher still works at the school.

Efrem Efrekiani is an excellent pupil of the seventh grade at the Public School # 3. He does not go to school anymore because he complains of poor eyesight and suffers from headaches when he writes or reads. Efrem’s sister, Anna Efrekiani, recalled how everything happened. “Our classmate grabbed my bag and my brother returned it back to me. The teacher shouted at me why I was walking about and hit my brother in his head.”

“I do not know how many times she beat me. I lost sight and I cannot remember how they took me home,” said Efrem.

Efrem’s father remembers that his son was in the poorest conditions when they brought him home.

“It was midday when the car pulled down at our gate and the school organizer he called me out of the car. Approaching the car I noticed my son was lying on the back seat. I asked them what had happened and they answered the children had some argument and they hit him the bag in the head. After they left, Anna told me the truth,” said Rubik Efremiani, the father.

Parents took the boy to the doctor on the same day.

“Efrem Efremian had brain concussion and his health condition was quite serious; I offered the parents to leave the boy in hospital.  The mother told me that she also could treat her son with all necessary medicines and injections; thus I had to visit the boy at home several times. He was recovering day-by-day,” said the doctor Mzia Kakoshvili.

Some time later Efrem returned to school; however he could not attend lessons.

“He has problems with eyesight. He cannot see letters on the blackboard properly. He cannot stand noise either and can hardly read. He used to paint for many hours a day before, but now he cannot paint at all. I do not let him to watch TV either,” said the mother.

“On April 25, Professor Chichua is arriving in Akhaltsikhe and we want him to examine our boy. If the examination shows a serious problem, we will take him to Yerevan,” said the parents.

The teacher Annaman Minasiani is twenty-three years old. She graduated from the philological faculty at the Javakheti Branch of the Tbilisi State University two years ago. She started to work at the public school as a History teacher a year ago. Minasian did not deny the fact though she refused to make comments on the fact.

The director of the Public School # 3, Robert Muradiani said that the teacher was rebuked for the incident and she would not receive her one-month salary as a punishment.

Efrem said that the incident was not the first fact in their school.

Gulo Kokhodze, Akhaltsikhe
 

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