Fuseina Fuseini, a 42-year-old teacher at Madina SDA Basic school in the Greater Accra Region has been adjudged Ghana’s Most Outstanding Teacher at the 2024 Ghana Teacher Prize awards.
The award, which coincides with World Teachers Day, celebrates educators who make significant contributions to the nation’s education system.
The Day was celebrated on the theme “Valuing Teacher Voices: Towards a New Social Contract for Education.”
Speaking at the 2024 Ghana Teacher Prize in Kumasi on Saturday, Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, announced the government was developing a raft of measures that will strictly ensure zero tolerance for indiscipline in Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country.
He warned students to refrain from fomenting trouble in their respective schools or they will have themselves to blame.
A recent stabbing incident at the O’Reilly Senior High School that resulted in the death of a student during a violent altercation with a colleague has sparked concerns about discipline in SHSs.
Various teacher unions condemned the incident, with the Ghana Education Service setting up a committee to probe the matter.
“A note of caution to all students that there should be no tolerance for indiscipline in our schools and there will be zero tolerance for indiscipline in our schools. We have some proposals that we are going to be discussing with CHASS and others regarding discipline in high schools. We have begun with the appointments of deans of discipline. That is a good start.
“…Zero tolerance for indiscipline in our high schools. The era where students, when they fail their WASSCE, go on a rampage destroying school properties will be over because we are working and we are going to be working with tertiary institutions, colleges of education, nursing training colleges, universities to ensure that when you are moving from high school to the university, you will provide a testimonial.
“You will have to secure a reference letter talking about your character. So if you go on a rampage and disrupt property, that ends your career. Indiscipline will not be tolerated anywhere in our schools. If you are proving to become a nuisance at Adisadel, we will give the school the right to do an opportunity transfer, you’ll be sent to another school,” he stated.
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