Low-Quality One Teacher One Laptop is Disrespectful Towards Teachers – Unions
Ghana Education News – Ghanaeducation.org |September 2021| Whiles the government is celebrating its achievement by distributing laptops to teachers under the One Teacher One Laptopinitiative, teacher unions at the Pre-tertiary Education level are not excited about the initiative.
The unionsbelievethe laptops being handed over to teachers are of low quality. They believe the government’s decision to launch the One Teacher One Laptop for the entire world to see worsens the case giving the low-quality nature of the laptops.
According to the unions, the launching of the event is high patronizing and totally disrespectful to teachers bythe government ofthe day.
Innovative Teachers and All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG) argued their stands in a petition they laid before the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in March 2021 which seemed tohave been ignoredby the government and the powers that be.
The unions in said “The act by the government “is highly patronizing and grossly disrespectful for government to give laptops of low quality to teachers as if teachers are so poor that we cannot afford quality laptops as our personal assets
The unions have argued that the government should have gone for laptops fromrenownedbrands such as Lenovo and Toshiba among others for teachers. The unions have described the One Teacher One Laptop brand as crap and one that does not befit the Ghanaian teacher.
They furthered that, thegovernmentmust distribute the laptops to teachers for free since thegovernmentis toprovidetools for teachers to work with and not to sell the tools to them.
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They have also called on (CHRAJ) to investigate the procurementprocessesthatwere followedin procuring the laptops for teachers.
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In aninterviewwith the leadership of the Innovative Teachers, they indicated that they will continue topursuethe matter and had served the (CHRAJ) with theirpetitionwhiles their lawyers had written toCHRAGtorequestthat, their members are not forced to take up the laptops nor should any deductions be chargedagainstthe salaries orprofessionaldevelopmentallowance of its members.
Source: Ghanaeducation.org