“You Will Be Charge With Assault If You Beat Student In Class”- Yaw Adutwum To Teachers

The minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum in an interview on Adom Fm’s DwasNsem show revealed that any teacher who beats student in class will be charged with assault.

According to him, some teachers cane pupils with anger and this gives an injury to the student. For this reason, any teacher who physically hurts any student will be charged with assault in the court of law.

“Teachers want to beat people’s children but when they go home, but they don’t beat their own children. They have their own way of ensuring discipline in their wards with just words. All SHS in Ghana will have a dean in charge of discipline. It is the dean who can know the kind of punishment to give to the child. Some teachers assault their students due to the kind of anger they had at the moment”

He added that the free SHS education has not brought about Indiscipline in schools. He revealed that Indiscipline has been in schools since day one and this government is finding new ways to curb it. He believes that the introduction of disciplinary deans in schools would help.

“What is the data to show that before the introduction of the free SHS education, students were disciplined. We have all being to secondary school and we know the issues in there. We know it. So before you tell this, you need to give me data. Their numbers have increased so if person used to be indiscipline, then more will join in now. So it is not the question that it is free SHS that has brought indiscipline in SHS” he said.

He suggested that cleaning the dining hall after lunch or breakfast is punishment schools could adopt.

INDISCIPLINE IN SHS

Whenever we hear of Indiscipline in senior high schools, we either hear of students disrespecting teachers, or students failing to follow the laid down rules in schools.

In Ejisuman SHS in Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti Region, a final year Business student was butchered by a suspected armed robber, who happens to be a colleague student during Prep hours.

According to report, the suspected armed robber is being identified as a second year student of the same school.

The victim is currently receiving treatment at the hospital after sustaining severe machete wounds after the gory attack.

Mr Charles Owusu, father of the victim narrated the incident to the media(OTEC News reporter Jacob Agyenim Boateng) on Monday August 7, 2023,

“He was learning with his colleagues in one of the classrooms but opted to move to the next one because some of his friends were making noise, after realizing it was late in the evening, he prepared to leave for the dormitory when a young man with machete , and handkerchief covered his face forcefully entered the room”

“He commanded my son to give him his mobile phone, but my son had no phone on him, the suspect then begun to pounce on my son with the machete leading to a struggle between them”

“The handkerchief covering the suspect’s face removed during the struggle allowing my son to see his attacker, he then rushed to the dormitory and upon informing school authorities the student suspect has been arrested and handed over to the Ejisu Police”, he said.

The Ejisu Police is currently conducting its investigations.

There has been similar cases of assaults in some senior high schools in Ghana. Some students acts as robbers to cause harm to their colleagues on campus.