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The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has welcomed the disciplinary measures issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) but thinks the students should have been allowed to finish writing their examination.

The GES has dismissed some 14 final year students who are believed to have been involved in riots and the destruction of school properties in the wake of the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The students were agitating over a paper that didn't go well for them. These students have been barred from continuing with their exams.

Speaking on Joy News' Prime, NAGRAT President, Angel Carbonu said in as much as the students need to be punished 'we don't need to destroy them'.

“I don’t think we should take the opportunity from them to write the exams. While we are punishing them, we need not destroy them. If we are not careful, we will create monsters for society to deal with. The aim of punishment is to reform and that should be the focus we have to take. They should be debordinaised in the first place and accompanied to the school premises to write the paper and leave the school premises immediately so that, they will not be a further influence on the other students,” he suggested.

Teachers interdicted

The GES statement also said three teachers from Tweneboa Kodua SHS, Kade SHTS and Sekondi College who are alleged to have played a key role in the riots have been interdicted and barred from invigilating. 

In reaction, the NAGRAT President said: “Teachers have a code of conduct and conditions of service. If you have information that a teacher has broken rules of the establishment, you take the teacher through the disciplinary process. Give the teacher a fair hearing before you take the final sanctions,” Mr. Carbonu said.

Listen to him in the video below



GES - No Mercy

Meanwhile, The Ghana Education Service has asked parents not to plead for mercy.

Speaking in an interview on Peace FM's news @ 6 pm, Director-General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said, "we don’t want any parent or guardian pleading or asking for mercy . . . they should allow them to be punished and reformed to become good citizens in society".