It is only an unwise teacher who will risk helping a 2022 BECE candidate cheat. The 222 BECE will start on 17th October 2022 and many of the temporal staff of WAEC will be teachers. Again, teachers who have prepared these candidates will be on standby to ensure nothing goes wrong for candidates. While performing their functions, Ghana Education News expects teachers to act as supervisors, invigilators, and others to do only the duty required of them without any form of compromise is it a mere sacrifice or for monetary gains.
In the last three BECEs conducted by WAEC teachers from the schools of some candidates, WAEC invigilators and other officers have been caught breaking the examination rules.
It will be a very poor decision if any teacher decided to sacrifice his or her progression and source of livelihood for candidates and their parents, who will never come to the rescue once they are caught.
Hence, teachers who have prepared their candidates for the examination as well as those who will serve as temporal staff of the examination council must resist every form of temptation to help the candidates cheat in the 2022 BECE.
Should all our teachers follow the rules of their engagement, we shall surely reduce or tame the annual examination question leakage which characterizes WAEC-administered examinations.
Parents and candidates must also desist from entertaining cheating and paying money to such officers. One common thing Schools writing the BECE in examination centres do which WAEC hardly detects is that these schools come together to contribute money at the candidate and school levels.
The funds are used by the hosting school or a leader chosen among the heads of schools or school reps to feed the security officers at the post as well as the WAEC officials.
Once this is done, the officers are likely to be compromised during the examination. Already there are attempts to leak supposed examination papers for the 2022 BECE by examination syndicates which have been published here [Donkomiooooo! Supposed Leaked 2022 BECE papers on sale for GHS400]
We look forward to our teachers turned supervisors and invigilators remaining wise and careful throughout the 2022 BECE. Only an unwise teacher will risk helping a 2022 BECE candidate cheat. If you are at post during the BECE, prove you are a man or a woman of letters and to the needful.
If you are a teacher, do not take any silly decision to help a candidate cheat. If the move backfires, you will have yourself to blame.