Punish students who assaulted teacher –NAGRAT tells GES
NAGRAT wants student who assaulted his teacher to be punished
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) are advocating punishment for a form 3 student of Three Town Senior High School at Denu in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region who beat up his teacher to serve as a deterrent to other
He[student] was alleged to have been bullying a first-year student and when the teacher intervened it resulted in an altercation.
According to reports, the form 3 student in the process pulled out a sharp object and attempted to stab the teacher, but ended up cutting the teacher’s arm instead resulting in a deep cut in the arm following the altercation with the final year Visual Arts student.
The student who was earlier apprehended is said to have been granted bail to enable him to participate in examinations scheduled to begin on Monday.
But NAGRAT is not enthused with the development. It strongly believes a bad precedent will be set if the student in question goes unpunished.
“Information reaching the union indicates that, despite the crime committed by the student, some powers that be, have influenced the release of the student from the Police cells and are insisting that the student be made to write the WASSCE exams which will be supervised by the same teachers he attacked,” portions of NAGRAT statement read.
“The leadership of NAGRAT wants to serve notice to all that, we support the decision of the teachers in Three Town Senior School to withdraw their services and refuse to invigilate the WASSCE exams if the law is not made to take its course by punishing Gilbert Akakpo for inflicting knife wounds on Mr John Kwashi Akey, the ICT Teacher.”
Also, NAGRAT called on the Director-General, the Regional Director, and the Municipal Directors of Education to stand in solidarity with the teacher “rather than issue threats against the teachers.”
“NAGRAT wants to affirm its support to all teachers who have been attacked by students.”
It vowed not to stand idle “whilst teachers are being attacked by their students throughout the country.”
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
