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Growing indiscipline in Senior High Schools cause of O’Reilly SHS stabbing – NAGRAT

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The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says the Ghana Education Service (GES) restriction placed on teachers to discipline students is the cause of the rise in unruly behaviour in various Senior High Schools.

President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu in an interview with Citi News monitored by Ghanaeducation.org argued that school authorities should be given the freedom to instil discipline in students to prevent such tragic incidents.

“Unfortunately, whenever teachers want to exact conformity rules, then a certain group of people who talk about human rights assume the teacher does not know what human rights are.

Sometimes when we go and take some financial support from some bunch of financial NGOs, then we forget that we need to establish rules and regulations that are akin to the reality of our environment

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Don’t do this. Don’t do this. When you talk to the student like that, you are creating psychological injury to the student. So, as if to create the impression that whenever the students goes wrong, we should kiss them and pat them on the back and tell them that they can continue

So, the school environment is continuously becoming a place where students are beginning to become unruly,” the teacher union president told the Accra-based media station.

His comment comes after a final-year student of O’Reilly Senior High School participating in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) was stabbed to death by his colleague on campus.

The 18-year-old West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School candidate identified as Edward Borketey Sackey after being stabbed was pronounced dead on arrival at the LEKMA hospital.

The deceased General Arts student who met his death after writing a paper for the International Examination (WASSCE for School) was reportedly engaged in an argument with a colleague over whose father was richer.

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Narrating the unfortunate incident to 3news, a cousin of Edward said “We heard some noise at the back and we asked what’s wrong and they said it’s Godwin and Edward fighting.”