In the Volta area, Reverend Robert Seddoh, Chairman of Ghana Private Schools, has praised private school teachers and challenged them to keep up their tenacious performance of their jobs.
He cited the rising quality of living as the reason for the need for public school teachers to go on strike and praised private school instructors for their decisive handling of the matter.
Private school teachers also experience financial hardship, according to Reverend Robert Seddoh, who made this claim in an interview with Ghana News Agency. However, he noted that because the schools themselves were not recently seen to be making any money, the teachers were able to manage under their leadership.
He remarked, "We recognise our instructors are paid less, but we continue to beg them not to give up on us since we are all going through difficulty."
The head of private schools in Ghana's Volta area said, "We don't earn much profit these days, most of the revenue goes into feeding and payroll payment. Despite the food scarcity observed in most public schools, private schools are still dedicated to give good meals to their children."
Because of private schools, he claimed, unemployment would have been on a different scale and the government should have provided financial aid to them.
Even though several of the instructors expressed dissatisfaction with their pay, they remained committed to the teaching profession because "a lousy job is better than no work."
Due to the financial difficulties, parents may not be looking to enrol their children in private schools during this strike, according to several staff members of the private school.
As a result of demands for the payment of the Cost-of-Living Allowance, four teacher unions—the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT)—have declared an indefinite nationwide strike beginning on Monday, July 4. (COLA).
20% of their base pay was what the unions wanted. On Thursday, July 14, 2022, they suspended their strike when the government and Organized Labor reached an agreement on a 15% cost of living allowance (COLA).
When one visited several of the schools in the South Tongu District, they observed pupils in class and ongoing academic activity.
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