The Ghana Education Service (GES) has been directed by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu to act quickly to bring discipline back to senior high schools across the country.
He expressed alarm at what he called a concerning breakdown of discipline in the nation’s educational system.
The Minister used a recent shooting at the SDA Senior High School in Kumasi as a stark illustration of the rising lack of discipline in schools when addressing school leaders at a meeting in Sunyani, Bono Region.
Citing the event, he said it “leaves much to be desired” and demanded immediate changes.
Haruna Iddrisu added that the government fully supports Professor Ernest Kofi Davis, the GES Director-General, in enacting the measures required to reduce violent conduct and establish discipline in schools.
“He has our full policy support to enforce those directives. So, for the ‘unGhanaian’ development of shooting in Kumasi, the Director General of the GES has the full support of the government for you to strengthen your inspection in order that guns, knives, and other violent tools are not found in our schools,” he stated.
In the meantime, the family of 16-year-old Suzi Adwoa Penamang, the SDA student who was shot by her coworker, is pleading for immediate financial support in order to keep her from losing her sight due to her injuries.
Source: newsthemegh.com