The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) is calling on the government to urgently assign psychologists to students as they prepare to write their final exams next week.
According to them, the students do not have the right frame of mind to study to pass their exams and therefore need counselling by psychologists to go through the process.
The call according to them has become necessary in the wake of coronavirus being recorded in some senior high schools in the country.
The President of NUGS, Isaac Jay Hyde noted that the union is aware of some schools at the Accra Girls SHS and others in the Western, Volta and Eastern Regions, recording cases after its reopening.
He, however, bemoaned the lack of education on the coronavirus and the stigmatization that could arise in the wake of infections of the virus in schools.
In an interview with an Accra based radio station Neat FM, Mr. Hyde recounted the KNUST SHS incident of a student dying and said “it is worrying to see the staff of the school stand by and doing nothing. For us as a union, if one student dies it’s like all the students dying.”
He said they are currently in communication with the government as a matter of urgency “to go and sanitize the kids and the teachers through education and psychological support to help against the spread of the virus and stigmatization.”
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On the closure of schools, Mr. Jay Hyde said the union understands the “legitimate calls” for students in affected schools to go home. He was however quick to add that, dismissing the students at a time like this could prove futile to the nation at large.
He has therefore called on the parents to remain calm and allow the government to “manage the students against the virus at the premises of the school.
He, however, advised all students should be tested after the examination before allowed to go home.
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