Acknowledge your “blackness” before calling school heads -GNAT told GES

In the wake of a series of questions on the interdiction of the WASS Headmistress, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called on Ghana Education Service (GES), GNAT to acknowledge their “blackness” before calling on school heads.

The Ghana National Association of Teachers, GNAT, in their reaction to GES’s shared interdiction statement about the WASS Headmistress on 19th July 2023 on social media, have decided to find out more from GES in the following questions:

i. Whether pre-financing the running of schools by the Heads in terms of capitation grant, administrative cost, and meeting other overhead cost from their own resources to be recouped later constitute an infraction?

ii. Should Heads allow their students to go hungry as in the case of Binduri SHS which resulted in a riot leading to the temporary closure of the school as carried by the Friday, 21st July, 2023, Editorial of the Daily Graphic Whether the PTA and Old Boys / Girls Associations can appropriately support the schools using their own resources both in cash and kind?

iv. Why should school heads who are very responsible people and taught many of the policymakers be made to keep quiet over the ineptitude of the said policymakers?

v. As citizens, why can’t they complain or cry out, when things are not going on well in their schools?

“The other day, the Head of Fijai school was at the receiving end, only for the PTA to come out to absolve her/him of any wrongdoing or malfeasance; but then the harm had already been done.

“How would she/he hold herself/himself in society and before her/his students, family, church, mosque, and the larger society henceforth? And now Dr. (Mrs) Shine Agatha Ofori? Would these persons be restituted in the end, if found to have committed no wrong? We await an answer from the GES and all who matter.

From all the above questions, GNAT has urged GES to acknowledge their “blackness”.

“And to the Ghana Education Service, GES, we wish to state categorically that, Enough is Enough! We are fed up, and the earlier GES stopped embarrassing school heads, teachers, and all other staff in the sector, the better it would be for all of us. The GES must acknowledge its own “blackness” before calling school heads, teachers, and the ancillary staff “black”.

SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh