Pre -tertiary Teachers Association have threatened nationwide strike following reprisal and violent attacks against their members in campuses.
The Association connotes that these incidents are taking a nose – dive on the teaching and learning environment and warns that the situation requires urgent response from the Education Ministry.
Indiscipline on school campuses is spiraling out of control, raising serious concerns among educators and stakeholders across the country.
Violent incidents involving both students and teachers are on the rise, with alarming consequences for academic work.
From the Western Region to the capital, Accra, schools are becoming battlegrounds prompting fresh calls for urgent intervention. Just last week, disturbing images emerged from the Western Region, where students were seen brandishing weapons on campus.
And on Friday, May 16, chaos erupted at the Accra High School when a student and a teacher got into fisticuffs. These incidents are not isolated.
In November last year, a teacher in Offinso, Ashanti Region, was stabbed in the eye by a student, a shocking act that underscored the gravity of the crisis.
Despite repeated calls from the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) for compensation and protection, there’s been little response from the authorities.
Now, the Pre-Tertiary Teacher Association of Ghana is raising the alarm. Adokwei Ayikwei-Awulley is the Vice President of the Association.
Ayikwei told 3news that, “The labour law says that if an environment is not conducive for work one must leave, so if the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education fail to act, we will very soon be leaving the classrooms”.
The Association is demanding immediate measures and a call for dialogue.
“We are asking the Parent Teacher Association, civil society, the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service to let us have a national dialogue to discuss the level of indiscipline in our schools,” they proposed.
