By Christopher Tetteh, GNA
Sunyani, (Bono), June 15, GNA – Miss Victoria Konadu, a housemistress and an English tutor at the Sunyani Senior High School (SUSEC) has expressed concern about the growing indiscipline and acts of lawlessness in SHSs in the country.
She said that indiscipline in schools threatened quality education and called for stakeholder support to help bring the situation under control.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, Ms Konadu stated that the growing indiscipline in SHSs was now a phenomenon which required collective approach to address and thereby bring sanity in the schools.
She said that the government, Ghana Education Service, Teacher Unions, and families ought to come together and find lasting solutions to the heightened incidents of student-teacher assaults.
Ms Konadu said for academic work to progress, there was the need for the nation to protect the fundamental human rights of both the teachers and students.
“The system now is failing us and we need to sit up as a nation”, she indicated, describing a recent incident where a student assaulted a teacher at the Nyinahini Catholic SHSs and many other incidents of assaults on teachers in the country as unfortunate.
Ms Konadu questioned: “When did we get here as a nation that a student can boldly fight a teacher or a teacher fighting a student?
“Let’s revisit and protect our social norms and the education system”, she advised, and urged the youth to respect the elderly and eschew acts of lawlessness.
As trainers, Ms Konadu advised teachers to be endurance and sometimes tolerant and patient with wayward students.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: Christopher Tetteh – GNA
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