Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has debunked reports attributed to him that school heads who contribute to the persistent poor performance of students in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) would be sacked.
Dr Opoku Prempeh was reported to have said that basic and second cycle school heads who record 90 percent or more failure in their final exams would be sacked.
The reports indicated that the poor performance of students in the WASSCE is unacceptable demanding that the school heads justify their continued stay in their positions.
Addressing heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) in Kumasi as part of a two-day familiarization tour to the Ashanti Region, he emphasized that the Ministry would not continue to accommodate school heads who superintend over consistent poor performance.
"Any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to continue operation without accounting to the Ghana Education Service (GES)," he was quoted as saying.
But speaking on Adom FM’s Morning Show “Dwaso Nsem” Thursday, Dr Opoku Prempeh stressed that his outfit will rather not entertain the practice of some headmasters whose inactions largely contribute to poor results in (WASSCE) and not sack school heads.
“I never said school heads will be sacked for poor performance. What I wanted to say and I said was that we will not tolerate such acts and therefore will put measures in place to make sure such incidents do not happen.
“If you are a doctor in hospital and your patients keep dying every day, do you think management will be happy? No. definitely management will talk seriously with the doctor and that is what we would do but not sack them” he noted.
Source: adomonline.com
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Poor journalism and poor comprehension! Does this statement mean an automatic sack? "Any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to continue operation without accounting to the Ghana Education Service (GES)," Since when did accountability become wrong or translate into automatic sacking? How can people continue to perform poorly at post without being questioned? This is a lazy mentality! The NAGRAT and all thise calling for the head of the minister must bow in shame! Such mediocre and negatively minded people are the reason why Ghana is not progressing. Let us aspire higher standards!
And I believe doctors don't go chasing their patients at their homes making sure they take their medicine.. Teachers teach in school students must study at home
NPP denial here, denial there. You have started on a wrong note. Napo, do you mean that all those who were there did not or misunderstood your English? Just retract and apologize. Journalists, can you please play his voice for us to make a judgement.
coward minister. sack them all.This can't fester in America. Sack them. I am a teacher and i bear testimony to this. sack them
Please, Dr Prempeh, and all other officers of the Akuffo Addo government, please be watch out against unguarded speech. Pompous talk was the hallmark of the previous government. Please set yourselves apart from that category of politicians.
You mean you can no longer express yourself well? People hear you and understand what you say clearly so better sit up. It is easy to criticize. How does it fell in the hot seat these few days? Very soon the rest are going to come at you and you will be explaining yourself more...
The media brought out those news and that was why Ghanaians started on u, peacefm is one of those who published that article wai, wawai anka u go see what Ghanaians are capable of paa, ,,,,innsults without limit