An educationist, Owusu Andrews has pleaded with Ghana Education Service (GES) to allow teachers to flog students when they go wrong.
According to him, the rise in students’ rebellion is because teachers are not allowed to discipline students when they exhibit disobedience.
“There is no respect between teachers and students because teachers aren’t allowed to go flog them or discipline them like before, hence students are not afraid of their teachers anymore”, he said.
This also comes in after some SHS graduates have indulged in some rebellious acts in the country, some due to over-excitement and others due to anger for not having access to the questions beforehand.
Some male students have burnt their boy’s dormitory after they wrote their last paper.
Speaking in an interview with Abena Pokua Ahwenee on Dadi FM, he stated that some of these students feel entitled to having access to questions “apor” before they sit to write their exams.
“Some of the students have been used to getting “apor” from their teachers so they rebellion and anger is because they don’t understand why the teachers don’t want to do the same thing for their main exams.”
He stressed that the students who successfully burnt down their dormitory must be punished and made to foot the bills to rebuild the dormitory.
“Their parents will be made to pay for the necessary materials in rebuilding the dormitory and the students will be punished. This will serve as a way of not encouraging rebellion in students”.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Gladys Amoah Konadu
