Thomas Tanko Musah, the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has likened the confidence level of senior high school (SHS) students to the behaviour of illegal miners.
According to him, many of the students have lost the character and conscience that develops one’s value system due to the lack of discipline in the senior high schools.
His comments come on the back of the stabbing of a final year student at the O’Reilly SHS in Accra leading to his death.
In an exclusive interview with TV3’s Christian Yalley Thursday, September 05, 2024, the GNAT General Secretary said it is the lack of moral decadence in the schools that has led to the increasing indiscipline.
He contends the value system in the schools has been completely obliterated, due to the ban on teachers to discipline students who go wayward.
“We have lost the character, the conscience and the value system. We have lost it entirely. There’s a loss of discipline, we have lost it entirely. Moral decay we have lost it entirely and the confidence level of the students now can best be described using the level of ‘galamsey’ in the country now.
“If we want to describe the behavior of students now in our school, the best example that we can give, we can only use the behavior of those engaging in galamsey because how on earth can somebody go and stand in the middle of a river and all that, digging gold,” he stated.
To address the challenge, Mr. Tanko is calling for an urgent stakeholder discussion to address the loss of discipline and moral decay in the senior high schools.
“To the extent that we have lost the affective domain which has to do with the character conscience and the value system which has been the training of our people, we need to organize a stakeholder meeting and this must be done now time is not on our side,” he stated.
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