Deboardenise students who cause mayhem – GES directs schools

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed school authorities to deboardinise students who cause mayhem in senior high schools across the country.

With final year students writing their exit exams, the GES said penalised boarding students should be made to write the WASSCE from home.

“The student should be allowed to commute from home to write the exams under parental control. Any destruction of school property will be surcharged against the culprits established to be involved,”  the statement issued by the GES said.

There have been reports of student indiscipline ever since the final year students began writing their examination on August 3.

The latest incident involves students of a private senior high school in the Eastern Region, Bright Senior High School.

A viral video showed students from Bright Senior High School at Kukurantum in the Eastern Region, attack external invigilators with the alleged support of their headmaster.

Before that, students from the Tweneboah Kodua Senior High School in the Ashanti Region and the Ndewura Jakpa Secondary Technical School went on rampage, destroying school property over strict examination rules.

The GES in a statement signed by the Director-General, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has condemned the behaviour of the students, describing it as appalling.

It was not just the students’ conduct that has irked the GES, it also expressed reservations about some of its staff, saying ” Management of GES has also received reports of instances of some staff involved in unprofessional conduct.”

In light of recent happenings, GES has, therefore, ordered directors to take the necessary action on all such misconduct, and submit reports to the Director-General immediately.

The Director-General further urged parents to desist from pleading on behalf of their wards who may be found culpable.

“Ghana needs educated and disciplined citizens in its forward march to development and that no student is above the law,” he added.

Background

Some candidates of the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination clashed with invigilators at Bright SHS in Akyem Kukurantumi over alleged intimidation.

The swift intervention by armed police personnel from Akyem Tafo and some BNI officials helped restore calm Thursday Morning.

According to the students, they are against the special deployment of external invigilators supervising the examination.

“The invigilators have been very strict, disallowing us from even going out to urinate,” they said.

The situation, they stated, has affected them psychologically, hence their inability to continue with the exams.

Find below the statement to that effect