Close down schools assuming strike proceeds - Clement Apaak to GES
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Clement Apaak has encouraged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to shut down schools assuming the continuous strike activity by pre-tertiary training instructors endures.
As per him, the schools ought to be shut for the understudies to get back for their wellbeing and security if the strike would go on for quite a while.
"As we are mindful, the instructor associations, subsequent to neglecting to stand out enough to be noticed of the public authority to pay their Cost-of-Living Allowance, have chosen to leave on a cross country strike. Near 7 million understudies are right now not profiting from educating and learning," citinewsroom.com reports.
The MP, who is the Ranking Member of Parliament's Select Committee on Education, likewise asked the public authority to address the requirements of the educators.
"We need to encourage the public authority to address the worries of educators, so they can return to the homerooms right away. Assuming this happens past a few days, it will be prudent for the GES to coordinate that the schools are shut down for the wellbeing and security of understudies, in any case government bears the obligation to guarantee that the needful is finished," he purportedly said.
The Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union started cross country strike activity on Monday, June 4, 2022.
The strike as indicated by the initiative of the educator associations, is a consequence of the disappointment of the public authority to fulfill their need for a 20% Cost of Living Allowance.
"We have been constrained under the ongoing conditions to freely convey to Ghanaians on our aim to protest having gone passed the June 30, 2022 cutoff time we gave government for the installment of Cost-of-Living-Allowance. Subsequently, we have chosen to set out on a Strike Action, viable today, Monday, July 4, 2022.
"By this, we are illuminating the overall population that, we are pulling out the entirety of our administrations in all the Pre-tertiary instructive space. (Educating and Non-Teaching Staff)," the gathering expressed in a public statement.
The GES has additionally requested that all schools ought to stay open notwithstanding the declaration of a quick strike by educating and non-showing staff in the public pre-tertiary area.
In an explanation endorsed by its Public Relations head, Cassandra Twum Ampofi, the help demonstrated that the initiative of the educator associations have been welcomed for chats with GES the executives yet that heads of essential schools and Senior High Schools have been entrusted to guarantee the security of all understudies and understudies.
"Provincial and District Directors have additionally been coordinated to guarantee that Basic School Heads keep schools opened and intently regulate all youngsters who report to school awaiting additional orders from Management of GES," portions of the assertion read.
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