GES sacks 8 students of Chiana SHS for insulting Akufo-Addo
The management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed eight students of Chiana Senior High School in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region for insulting President Akufo-Addo in a video last year.
The dismissal of the students comes after the Ghana Education Service and authorities of the Chiana SHS completed an investigation that unravel the circumstance that lead to such unfortunate utterances and gestures against Nana Addo.
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Describing the incident as heartbreaking in an apology letter to His Excellency Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, GES said the unfortunate act of the Chiana Senior High School students is against every educational and moral principle in society.
“We wish to inform the general public that the students in the video have been identified as second-year students of Chiana Senior High School in the Kassena Nankana West District,” the Ghana Education Service (GES) said last year.
In a letter shared with AcademicWeek.com and dated November 29, 2022, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah directed that the insulting students be sacked from the school
A letter to the parents of one of the students explained that her conduct was “considered very undesirable and contrary to the acceptable standards of conduct generally required of any student in our Educational system in Ghana.”
The Ghana Education Service following students of Chiana SHS punishment has admonished students to use the dismissal as “a major turning point in her life to bring the desired change in her behaviour and attitude towards life.”
Reacting to the dismissal, Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of Education think tank – Africa Education Watch has called on the management of the Ghana Education Service to allow the schools to discipline students in line with their rules.
“Let’s allow the schools to discipline students in line with their rules. Our continuous interference in school discipline is breeding indiscipline. If students feel the process or outcome is unfair, let them appeal,” he said in a social media post.