The Ghana Education Service has always been in shambles. The disorderliness in that institution deserves massive attention because you will find it di
The Ghana Education Service has always been in shambles. The disorderliness in that institution deserves massive attention because you will find it difficult to understand how a place which should be the foundation of anything sensible fails to exhibit anything sensible.
6,249 teachers have taught for 14 months and have yet to receive their salaries. They are teachers from the Universities and Colleges of Education who were posted to the various vacant classrooms in 2024.
After more than six months of incessant complaints, the unpaid teachers began to make their feelings known by visiting the Ghana Education Service headquarters in Accra to express their concerns through demonstrations.
The Ghana Education Service on Tuesday, 10th March, released a communique informing the newly posted teachers not to demonstrate in Accra during class hours. The directors of education across Ghana were ordered to consider the teachers as absent from duty without permission. This is so unlawful, and no one must entertain it.
In the first place, the one who wrote the letter must bow his head in shame. Why would you pride yourself on free education as a nation and massively execrate the teachers who are the backbone of the policy?
Ghana has failed to move forward since independence because of dinosaur minds like ‘we don’t teach to make it in life’, ‘teachers’ rewards are in heaven’, ‘some workers are more important than others’. This is so shameful and unfortunate. A 69-year-old nation should never owe teachers’ salaries for 14 months.
69 should be an old age where one must be swimming in a pool full of correct decisions. Ghanais is turning 70 in March 2027, 6th to be precise, yet she behaves like a 17-year-old boy who has fallen in love for the first time – his decisions are so so appalling.
How teachers are treated in Ghana must be reviewed comprehensively because you will never see any sector where employees are treated so gravely.
Who will survive when he is not paid for a whole year? It is only in Ghana that someone will work for 12 months and receive just three months’ salary, and everybody will take it as normal.
Ghanaian teachers have been sidelined for quite a long time, and it is about time the leaders cared for their welfare. The Ghana Education Service is a toothless sector that always finds it difficult to make the profession attractive.
It is barbaric to hear the politicians making promises to teachers and failing to fulfill it. They see teachers as mere puppets who, when given a 100 cedi allowance monthly, will vote for them. They see them as employees who, without any allowance on their pay slip, will still fall for the perennial NPP-NDC cheats.
The irresponsible letter is a slap in the face of Ghanaian teachers, and teachers’ associations like GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT must wake up and fight for the salaries of the affected ones.
Everything points to the fact that Ghanaian leaders do not like Ghanaian teachers the way they like other professions.
Since when did it become unlawful to demonstrate? The Education Minister and Regional Directors must sit up and deliver. They should not in any way dare to threaten the beleaguered teachers.
People are losing interest in this profession due to the unacceptable behaviour from the government and the leaders of the institution, and it will take a miracle to reignite the passion teachers must show towards it.
Has the institution ever thought about the mental health of the teachers? Why have we decided to harm ourselves as a nation? What is actually wrong with the leadership of Ghana?
Any country that politicises its education system is destined to fail, so it’s not shocking to see the country facing the same old problems that ought to have been solved in the early 1980s.
The government must find a way to settle the teachers’ 14 months’ salaries and stop the blah blah blah bane.
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