Sisters of Rasta student rejected by Achimota face similar situation at St John's Grammar 

If you live in a country where a young man like Tyrone is more intelligent and has more insight than the adults paid to lead and administrate the education system, you know the country is doomed for generations to come. Sad.

Can any private school accept donations to permit the children to attend with their hair?

Aaaaah God bless the small boy Very intelligent

It’s sad how we easily associate locks to “weed”.

I have dreadlocks so I clearly understand being discriminated against. I am so saddened by your family's plight. My husband and I were summoned to school to talk with the principal about our son's dreadlocks also. Please don't give up hope, stick to what you believe in, and don't allow others to manipulate you and your family. Society wants to put all of us in the same box and expect us to behave, believe and act in a certain controlled way and fashion. But we were not created to be this way. So please fight to be you... your unique self.

We have adopted the western culture so deeply that we don't even remember our self. Dreadlock is African,our ancestors were in dreadlocks,Okomfo Anokye and many great kings who lived on the soil of Africa. Even in the Bible Samson and Prophet Ezekiel and others were in dreadlocks. What has dreadlocks have with Education, it's a choice of both the parent and child either to keep dreadlocks or shave the hair of their children schooling.

While others are manufacturing and advancing at a rapid speed we are wasting our time on the importance of cutting hair, foolishness!!!!

I am really sorry for this innocent children going through this drama 😞

The father and the son can speak good English better than some of the headmistress and teachers.

Tyrone, write the SAT and leave these people. You're too brilliant for all this.

People in Ghana pretends to be open minded but clearly this showed otherwise. They have made us cut our hair for a long time and the excuse is, we'd rather play with our hair than study.

Anybody should tag this post for future reference. I bet you Tyrone Marguay is going to be soo much great.i can envision that, Mark it

Then everyone with long hair of any kind should also take it off till after school ...

How have these rules and regulations benefited Ghanaians in the long run?

Please let’s learn not to use the word “dreadlocks” lets so play say “locks” cos there’s nothing dreadful about these locks

The boy is overly smart. Some university folks dont even speak english with that much coherence

I like Tyron’s voice

He’s very clever... St Johns Grammar cannot rely on Achimota School’s policy to deny them...

This is not a good look on Ghana. This is Africa the more reason we should be accommodating of the cultures we’re inviting into our system. The minister for tourism, the GES and the president needs to get involved. If you want to have people move to Ghana, “year of return “ then have laws to accommodate their cultures, religion and facilitate ways to accommodate their beliefs. This is appalling.

What has their hair got to do with the school, DISCRIMINATION

They have good command over the english language.

I hate this country Ghana , opportunities are not being provided for the youth and yet we are being treated unfairly, Ghana hmmmm

Let your children go resigter for S.A.T this SHS is a waste of time.

But the headmasters think they are cool with horse hair and fake eye lash

Who noticed this boy speak impeccable English than the university graduates of nowadays

this young man is poised to lead this nation one day, look at his level of intelligence, if i was an head master he won't face this discrimination Back in school at St John's grammar, one of my classmates was a Chinese with a perm so i don't understand all whats going on. Even at Achimota there are lots of them there. The fight here is a color thing mixed with colonial mentality

Start your own School. At the end lets see who earns more

His dad should send them to a private school... With his intellectual ability he can perform the science and maths and even win the achimota students one day... Yh

Such an intelligent kid. He sounds very smart and brilliant. Indeed there will be an alternative.

Well said young man, it's not little discrimination it's ignorance.

This discrimination doesn't make sense

I fully support the boy do not dim your light so that their can shine.Do not cut your hair

this is a big disgrace to ghana this is discrimination very shameful

the boy can speak bl3, wow. God will surely make a way

i pray they get scholarships to study outside the country this is a clear indication of how ghanaians judge people by their appearance shameful

This kid is intelligent 🤓 just see how he is spitting out the English Just a junior high graduate

What does the LAW says? Can't wait to hear from the court.

THIS HAS BEEN THE RULE IN SCHOOLS ALL ALONG. WHEN YOU GO TO ROME YOU DO AS THE ROMANS DO. THE RASTAS ARE POLITICISING THE WHOLE SAGA. RULES ARE RULES, AND IF THEY CANNOT ABIDE BY THE LAW, THEN THERE WILL BE NO EDUCATION. AS A PARENT WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?

This is very annoying ah, just admit the kids eh oh

They should start a go fund me so people can donate and get him into a private school. This is foolishness

This boy will be a great leader in future Tyrone God guide u

Chai,his English is very smooth 👏👏👏😭😊😊😊😍😍😍

The family need to start a GoFund me Account to raise funds to help them with Legal fees against all the parties concerned.The who world is watching Ghana reject and abuse this boy and his Family.

Remember that the ones making decisions in the name of the school are individuals. Rigid, strict, dressed uptight when its daylight, but when darkness comes down, pure filth! I know the type! Give him his education which he has a right to and cut the crap of picking on small things to be judgemental about.

Woooww.....his English is so fluent and on point

Wow he is very very smart.He stood for himself 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿he will grow and do wonders for ghana.I will choose him anytime over the useless leaders.Sense nkoaaaa

Well I think it's necessary to follow GES rules and regulations because if each person who has enrolled in a government school should allowed to make their hair what ever they want, we the students will be super happy BUT the government is not allowing us to do what ever we want with our hair. But the interesting thing is that the private schools are allowed to keep their hair so I don't see the need on stretch this issue so much. No one is discriminating them they should just accept it. If they really wants to keep their hair, they should go to private school and if they really want education and still wants to be enrolled in the government school, then, they should follow the rules and regulations of the school

thats a smart kid right there being denied his right to education because of religion. What happened to the freedom of religion . 2015-2018 the Accra Academy admitted one guy called Laud with dreadlocks just like this kid and there was absolutely no problem. Its the personality of the kid that counts Achimota sch should grow up. Imagine we start saying muslim girls has veils so we wont allow them🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Fluently bigups my boy.😂

When you go to Rome do what Rome do OPAMBOAUR KWASIE KWA when you go to Africa do what African's do period in Italy here 10% are doing

The boy speaks eloquently.

Tyrone. Accra Academy would admit you so go there. In BLEOO we don’t discriminate on rastafarians

We've allowed these institutions to get away with discrimination for too long it has become second nature.... Schools should make rules taking into account the laws of the land.... Period..... We don't want to hear any ananse proverbs, or wise speech or any adages.... Strictly constitutional law

The reason why most Ghanaians are well respected and given decent jobs in advance world is our appearance, we have had UN secretary from Ghana, we had one gentle man working with BBC I guess others know of some Ghanaians in high offices in places. The moment we start accepting this people very soon boys with ear piercing and body tattoos will also show up, that will be the end of Ghana's noble culture.

Definitely we’ll get education by all cost ✊

The young man speaks very well with good comprehensive which some of the heads don’t even do

Africa di3 unnecessary things sorrrrr smh

What is the meaning of all this?

If having hair is equal to a hindrance in education, then a law should be passed for students to cut their hair from nursery up to university, and when they are through, they can start growing it. Because, to only cut your hair for SHS would be HYPOCRISY. Its time for a change. Let it happen. And for the old students who want the children to be oppressed like they were, shame on you!

THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN SPEAKS VERY ELOQUENTLY GOD BLESS YOU

The boy is brilliant! Ghana is not prospering and it's not a curse, it's our own character. The way we think about other issues is out of the equation. We actually don't know what it is. We have no facts, we just think and assume. We're lacking behind.

What has dreadlocks got to do with education Ghana

Ghana as a nation is lost because we don't even know our own identity. Our education system is a joke. Is our education system even benefiting us as Ghanaian or is to benefit our colonial masters.

Forget Ghana schools, homeschool them and let them write novDec .... the most important thing is getting admission to tertiary and per his results he is excellent

A lot of people in authority in Ghana fool ruff

GES, common update yourself.

People are not understanding something from this situation........ I personally think the shaving of our (Ghanaians) natural hair and the grooming of foreign students' hair is bias in our education system. In the first place what was the reason behind " barber your hair for school" ?...where did it originate from? I quite remember when I was starting SHS... I had a severe medical condition of which shaving my hair could worsen the situation but NO I was forced to do so and had to live with the consequences to date. On the other hand, a Chinese- Ghanaian freshman just like me was allowed to keep her hair with the excuse that it's against her culture ( SMH). It just doesn't make sense because if all students (Ghanaian or foreign) are allowed to keep their hair and even taught how to groom and take care of their hair with strict rules and regulations, I don't think it will be a problem, especially in this 21st century. But GES says NO but still encourages the bias. It's high time they realize that shaving hair is also quite problematic especially after SHS. Think about it....with the number of female SHS students in the country, this could also create employment for native hairstylists if they are also made to follow the rules for styling SHS student natural hair. Well, who is thinking???? .....we dey inside saa

The old student association.

Watching this make me sick, in this modern world....what has his hair got to do with his education. Ghana grownup

St. John’s Grammar shouldn’t rely on what achimota school is saying they should know they are different from Achimota school.

My Dad is a Fattish priest I will also come to the schools for my own dress code ... If human right will also fight for me

Waa see some school be a they are saying they have rules :)) Havard koraa their student body president wears locks :)

As a result of the various achievements of certain individuals who went through our schools, the school authorities have built a certain lack of respect for anyone. This arrogance of the ones in charge of the secondary educational institutions in Ghana is despicable even to the point where they step on the rights of these young individuals. Funny enough if not annoying, they will be teaching students rights and freedoms in the classrooms meanwhile no example is being showed by them. I believe this case should be sent to court . Most SHS students - present as well as past students have been bullied by those put in authority in the various schools. I am in SHS 3 ( I wont mention the school for obvious reasons)right now and I am a witness to similar acts of arrogance and disregard of students . This dreadlocks issue is not the only stiff necked position of the people placed in charge of the schools. Why should GES give a direction and the school decide to debunk it? Clearly arrogance on the path of the school's heads and the Dictatorship of the alumni association of the school. If it were a an option D school, they would've accepted the young individual nonetheless. I believe the solution to this problem will be to set up a law that puts schools directly accountable to the government so that any student who feels his right his being infringed by the school authorities can have the confidence to report to the law enforcing agencies. This arrogance as a result of the pedigree of the school should not continue.

Hair or brain. Gh foo bi nom ne gyimeee

If home tuition wasn’t expensive,dat would have been the best option....this fight for freedom looks bleak

we've lost focus as a country, why are they so interested in the kids cutting their hair? i can help guide them to find admission in a Canadian high school and create a gofundme. I am willing to make a likkle donation to help pay their tuition. The Ghanaian system is a complete mess. What have the bald so-called leaders done for Ghanaians apart from stealing, yet Ghanaians have no balls to talk abt that.

A day will come GES will come out no entrance or final examination for locks kids its sad Ghana we need to grown up

Now before I UNDERSTAND that discrimination REALLY stated in Africa. WHY should a school RULES be bigger than the Constitution of GHANA??

God provide opportunities for this intelligent kids abroad , Amen

This has nothing to do with discrimination whatsoever. Its principles. If your hair is more important to you than being in that school then so be it. The school should not abandon its principles because of u. Besides, Rastafarian religion does not make it compulsory for every member to maintain rasta hair

Wow prejudice in Africa over African culture. This is sad.

Shame on you Ghana

You Ghanaians let the Rasta peoples feel Free

Really backward thinking of some of these Ghanaians is beyond me. " If it's a western country" really?

Tyrone guy speaks more sense than the school authorities respek Rasta 👊🏿

It not only dreadlocks , even in primary school you have to cut your hair because of rules, I had to cut mine because of it. This should be happening same where in US or the European countries not in Africa , what has hair got to do with studies, this hair issue should be a choice.

AFRIFA AMANKWA YEBOAH PAYS HIS RESPECT ✊🏽

If you want to go to Rome erh, you do what the Romans do, it's not because you are no longer human and have no rights, but so far as you want it, live it. Very simple... most people in Ghana, who have schooled here have gone through these "discrimination" before.

Minister of education has to step into this unfortunate incidence

Yes you will get educated at all cause i love u

Cutting their hair doesn't mean they're free from sin, the girls cut their hair and still get pregnant, boys hair are always short but some still get into sakawa and other bad things May The Lord Jesus help them get admission somewhere they're education can be realized,

Very intelligent boy

Maybe diasporans need to stop romanticizing Ghana. COLONIZERS have permeated Africans with self hatred. If Ghana wants to be a beacon for the African diaspora than it must represent our diversity. BABYLON'S RULE.

Bigups Tyler

This boy really speaks good English

The boy is very brilliant

RIDICULOUS!!! If in Africa, we cannot wear our natural hair?! It’s SAD.

This is so disgraceful to the Nation! Am even sad why people are waiting their time and money for education in Ghana, bro don't worry your children are about to continue their education in Europe soon

When will the black man learn 21st century and we behaving like we are living in the 15st century

As if when you cut your hair when you finish school you're going to get a job