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Mercy, Teacher’s Saga: Chrisland School management resolves lingering issue 

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The incidence of bullying reported by Nollywood actress, Mercy Okojie Johnson, on her Instagram handle, which drew diverse emotions from Nigerians two weeks ago, she has disclosed that she will not be withdrawing her daughter from Chrisland School.

Mercy disclosed this last week at the Chrisland School, VGC Branch after engaging with the management and selected members of the Chrisland School Advisory Board over the incident.

Speaking about the incident leading to the social media crisis, Mercy Johnson-Okojie said, “Purity, our daughter, had an encounter with a teacher whose seemingly inflexible approach got her off-balance. We have been able to have a deep, frank conversation with the Chrisland authorities and we have come to a meaningful positive resolution. It is our choice to move forward together as crucial partners with valuable, immeasurable roles to play in the development of our children.

“We are pleased with their efforts towards ensuring that all pupils get an all-round balanced and qualitative learning. Chrisland has assured us of their commitment to the bigger picture, which is firmly centred upon being responsive to the fragile emotions of children as well as the valid concerns of parents,” she said.

To those who did not agree with her approach on social media, Mercy Johnson said, “yes, different opinions are welcome. After all, in the world and social space such as ours, agreement and disagreements are bound to occur. However, blatant falsehoods and untruthful narratives should be completely eschewed.”

In her own remarks, Managing Director of the Chrisland School Conglomerate, Mrs Ibironke Olatokunbo Adeyemi, said, “It was our pleasure to host Prince and Mrs Okojie. We had a long, frank and fruitful conversation, part of which was our firm reassurance that Chrisland as an institution holds sacrosanct, a zero-tolerance for bullying. As promised, we also investigated the issue on the ground and were able to establish there were rough edges to smoothen up from a clearly avoidable misunderstanding.

“We ironed this out without losing focus on the bigger picture of deepening our children including Purity Okojie, in our institution’s core values which are discipline, integrity, professionalism, love and excellence. The cordiality and empathy accorded the Okojies is characteristic of our corporate tradition and cuts across every family that holds us in trust to raise their kids irrespective of race, creed or social standing,” she said.

Mrs Adeyemi also had words of commendation for Mercy Johnson for “paying exceptional and detailed attention to her children despite the pressure and demands of her profession,” describing her as an exemplary mother and reiterating that “we hasten to state unequivocally that Mercy Johnson at no time brought questionable characters to assault anyone on our premises. Anything other than this was based on imaginative conjectures which of course, we as an institution decline vehemently to endorse.

“While its natural to feel some disquiet about the approach adopted in airing her grievance, we have nonetheless, translated this engagement opportunity into useful insights on less disconcerting methods of redress in future, especially as its unrealistic not to expect occasional frictions within humanity’s social ecosystem,” Adeyemi added

She concluded that “there is no perfect organisation, but one of the sustainable drivers of growth for Chrisland is the institution’s capacity to always embrace instructive feedback, translate the vital elements to learning curves and place premium value on constructive engagement.”

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