To set the records straight, it is against the GES code of ethics for a teacher to sell or do business in school.
Again, GES has banned teachers from caning learners in schools.
Safe School Policy has also cancelled caning amongst all kinds of harassment in schools.
According to the 1992 constitution of this country, everyone, including children are entitled to freedom of speech in order for one to express his/her feelings without intimidation or humiliation.
Finally, insulting pupils and their parents as well as engaging in fights or quarrels with them is highly unprofessional on the part of a teacher and should be condemned.
According to the news, a teacher at Nkwanata South M/A Redeem Basic of the Oti region has caned a nine-year-old pupil to the point of injury for criticising the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink.
According to Adom News’ Obrempongba Kwame Owusu, the student was physically assaulted last week Friday after she complained to a friend in the school that the sobolo drink sold by the class teacher was not sweet.
She said her friend threatened to tell the teacher after they had a disagreement and later proceeded to tell the class teacher.
According to her, the teacher called her and made her knelt down and called someone to bring her a cane to discipline her.
The student said even the intervention of a Primary 2 class teacher who chanced on the assault did not convince Madam Magdalene to stop beating her.
She told the reporter that the teacher told the class she wants to leave marks on her body to take home to show for her lack of indiscipline.
The pupil claims the teacher also said unsavoury things about her mother.
Isha Razak, mother of the nine-year-old said she is pained and does not understand why the teacher keeps inflicting pain on her ward.
According to her, the teacher takes delight in assaulting her daughter even for making little mistakes in class.
Disclosing that this is the fourth time her daughter has come home with cane marks on her body, she said the teacher calling her a whore in front of her daughter and other people is not something she will take lightly.
She wants school authorities to take up the issue and deal with the teacher.
We are glad Mr. Jonathan Korsinah, the Nkwanata South Education Director, noted that the directorate has already set up a committee investigate the case. The issue should be investigated thoroughly and the necessary actions taken to serve as deterrent to other teachers.
My dear teachers, we are role models to others. Let’s demonstrate a positive attitude at all times.
Signed
Mr. Boadi William
CEO, Educationist, FIE Author and Motivational Speaker.
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Jerry Akporhor
Ag Deputy Secretary
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EGS…We Educate The Nation.
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