President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Mr Angel Carbonu has registered his displeasure over the interdiction of the KNUST SHS Headmistress.
Madam Felicia Asamoah Dankwaa, has been asked to step aside as headmistress of the school to allow investigations into circumstances that led to the death of one of the final year student of the school.
A release from the Ghana Education Service has directed the Ashanti Regional Director of Education to take over management of the school in her absence.
However, Mr Carbonu speaking on Accra based Asempa FM said he was not happy with the decision by the GES. According to him the rules binding the headteachers in the country exempts them from taking certain actions against them.
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The NAGRAT President showed he was angry over the interdiction as he said the headmistress has not committed any crime but rather blamed the health apparatus whom he indicated is their duty to give health advice in situations as that.
“Now, there was no health person to take a decision based on knowledge of health. What crime has the headmistress committed? Now in the case of Accra Girls, the headmistress refused to allow the girl to go home. What template did you give to the heads to follow? What was the checklist given to the head to follow that she has not followed?” he asked.
Mr Carbonu dismissed claims the teachers who stood by while the student suffered were insensitive. He said teachers have always sacrificed their lives for the welfare of students. What he believes has changed is the emergence of Covid19 which according to him has created extreme fear amongst both teachers and students to the extent that each has often remained more careful in handling health complications in recent times.
NAGRAT president angry KNUST SHS Headmistress was treated unfairly
“Just confirm from anyone in the school if they were not taking students to hospital before covid started? We are not in normal times, the headmistress was confused and the teachers too were confused. The way we used to manage children with malaria are we going to do the same for coronavirus” he asked.
Mr Carbonu has rather blamed the Educational and Health authorities for failing to orient teaching staff how to handle likely Covid-19 cases as schools reopen.
However, Mrs Cassandra Twum Ampofo, spokesperson for the Ghana Education Service, has debunked the allegations saying “We said we have mapped each school to a health facility. In the situation of KNUST SHS the situation is different. There is a hospital not far from the school. However, we have Covid-19 response teams in the schools who have been trained”.
BY: ONESIPHORUS OBUOBI/ATL FM NEWS
