As a nation, we need serious educational & institutional reforms to clean up the mess created.... With what is happening currently in our SHSs, the sad rhetorical question we need to ask ourselves is that, is this not the actual reflection of our current societal and institutional realities?
Taking bribe is considered normal, when journalists bring to light judges who accept inducements (supposed gifts) to compromise on rulings on sensitive issues, they're persecuted for which some have to run into exile & those who fell prey to the system got murdered....
When young people openly insult sitting and even former officers of state, it's considered opposition and when party or gov't Militia groups or Vigilantes assault, brutalizes and intimidate innocent citizens, authorities remain mute like they're deaf and dump!
This is the end product we're currently harvesting as a nation... The gross misconducts of these SHS students....
The sad reality... The ills of our society and nation....
(Punishments to students)
14 students who were identified in various incidents to have insulted the President or other school authorities were have been dismissed and going to be disallowed from partaking in the rest of the WASSCE exams...
In as much as I do not condone with the indisciplines of the students, I however hold an entrenched opinion that the decision to expel & disallow them from partaking in the rest of the WASSCE exams is arbitrary and one in bad faith.
I believe there are many punishments available to have been given to such irresponsible students who may only have been apprentices of a crooked society that has lost scope in its good moral fibres, to reform them... But certainly not punishments that will truncate their future ambitions regardless the justifications....
This boils down to the fact that, there must be a conscious effort at having a national conversation on educational reforms and institutional reconstructions......
The educational issues must be tackled from its root cause........
May we build a future that those after us would be proud of and be grateful to us.....
Possible, Together!
The Writer of this piece is Tetteh Djem Bismark. A writer, A Communications specialist, Political and Social analyst.
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