Three Most Recent Abuse of Students by Teachers in Ghanaian Schools

Do you know the Three Most Recent Abuse of Students by Teachers in Ghanaian Schools? These are worrying records that negate the efforts of all the dedicated, disciplined, law-abiding, and well-behaved teachers in Ghana.

Teachers are mentors in many instances who burn themselves up to light up the minds, career paths, and the future of the learners, but there seem to be some teachers who decide to put the teacher’s code of conduct aside and violate students.

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to put measures in place to help stop the rampant abuse of students in Pre-tertiary schools, which amounts to the violation of the rights of students.

In the press release, they outlined the Three Most Recent Teacher Abuse of Students in Ghanaian Schools.

Cases of such abuses in recent times include: 

• Teachers inflicting various degrees of injury on students at the Annor Adjaye Senior High School at Ezilibo of  Jomoro district in the Western region, using the cane.  
• A teacher, Ibrahim Salifu allegedly poured acid on a 14-year-old student at the Nalerigu Senior High School  in the North-East Region and lost his left forearm and right foot as a result for stealing a bicycle. 
• The Assistant Headmaster of Bole Senior High School in the Savannah Region, Issahaku Jeduah, has allegedly raped a 21-year-old student. According to the victim, the Assistant Headmaster executed his plans in his workplace when he invited her over beneath the pretense of advising her. 

These are all worrying violations by teachers and heads, who are supposed to offer learners the best of protection while the learners are under their care.

READ: Stop rampant abuse of students in school by Teachers – GNECC to GES

The teacher’s code of conduct and its content needs to be imbibed into teachers through novel methods if we are to win teachers from the act and desire to use the cane and other methods that belong to the corporal punishment approach.

The Ghana Education Service is not just stopping the old form of abuse all in the name of punishment, but taking disciplinary actions against teachers that abuse the fundamental right of students. The Ghana Education Service is also evolving modalities and corrective measures that teachers can use to correct students in pre-tertiary schools.

Why are some teachers still abusing their learners and for what gain?

Has the Ghana Education Service taken applied the punitive sanctions as prescribed by the code of conduct in all thee three cases above?

Source: Ghana Education News