AA GROUP of concerned trained teachers in the Gushiegu District of the Northern Region have expressed concern about the poor academic performance among students in schools in the area.
They blamed the situation partly on the lack of supervision, the recruitment of untrained teachers with the adoption of bad teaching methods and bribery and corruption among some education authorities in the area.
The teachers who pleaded anonymity stated this during an interaction with the Daily Graphic at Gushiegu.
They pointed out that some parents did not invest in their children’s education thereby resulting in the poor performance of the school pupils.
In the communities, some parents do not value education and so do not care what their wards do during or after school hours, while they do not encourage their children to learn after school and some of the kids have to fend for themselves, they lamented.
According to them “those untrained teachers can only teach the school pupils to sing and dance without teaching them how to read and write effectively”.
They denied some reports in the media that suggested that all teachers both trained and untrained were to blame for the poor academic performance among school children, stressing that “we the trained teachers are not to blame for such unfortunate trend in education in the area”.
The teachers further stressed that the current state of affairs could be addressed if the recruitment of trained teachers was encouraged and made to be more transparent.
They alleged that for transparency to prevail during the recruitment of teachers in the district, bribery and corruption should be avoided and those employed should be given their appointments based on merits.
The teachers equally suggested a thorough house-cleaning exercise within the office of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the district, to remove the rot in the system to pave way for the right things to be done.
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