The Ghana
National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has condemned the interdiction of the
headmistress of the West Africa Senior High School (WASS) for the unauthorised
collection of money from students.
GNAT in a
statement described the Ghana Education Services’ decision to indict the
headmistress as sinister and that it is only aimed at hiding its own
shortcomings and blaming same on innocent and vulnerable teachers.
“Once again, the
Ghana Education Service, GES, has gone into overdrive, and is at its usual
sinister best, seeking to cover its own shortcomings of not addressing the
numerous challenges facing the smooth running of the public basic and secondary
schools. This behaviour is bringing the personalities of school heads and
teachers, and their skills and competencies into question, disrepute, and
opprobrium. The GES must put its own house in order internally, before going to
town every now and then with school heads who have become pawns in its blame
game.”
GNAT in its
statement also referenced the interdiction of the head of Fijai SHS which it
said the accusation of extortion happened to be false.
“The other day,
the Head of Fijai school was at the receiving end, only for the PTA to come out
to absolve her/him of any wrongdoing or malfeasance; but then the harm had
already been done. How would she/he hold herself/himself in society and before
her/his students, family, church, mosque, and the larger society henceforth?
And now Dr (Mrs) Shine Agatha Ofori? Would these persons be restituted in the
end, if found to have committed no wrong? We await an answer from the GES and
all who matter.”
GNAT explained
that some heads often pre-financed the running of their schools due to
government delays and later get reimbursed but as the government and the GES
have taken delight in indicting its members, it advised all “school heads,
teachers, and our members, not to pre-finance the running of the schools from
their own resources, going forward, since doing so would be misinterpreted, and
awarded with shame, suspension, and interdiction, as has happened to Dr (Mrs)
Shine Agatha Ofori and her colleagues.”
Below is GNAT’s
full statement.
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