Mr Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Minister of
Education on Thursday said government would always cater for the
welfare of teachers since a happy teacher would always be prepared to
deliver quality services to pupils.
He said teachers� welfare most often determined their
preparedness to deliver no matter what circumstance they operate.
Mr Ayariga made the pledge during a visit to Nii Sowah Din
Cluster of Schools at Adenta, an Accra suburb to interact with
teachers and heads of the schools to have first hand information of
their activities, challenges and how best they could be solved.
He said �the most important thing about a teacher is his or her
happiness...�
Mr Ayariga urged teachers to put all issues aside and teach to
their best ability so that the standard of their schools would be
improved to pave way for more parents to enroll their children, and
assured them that all their grievances would be handled immediately to
enable them to work even harder.
Mrs Florence Opare, Head teacher of the primary section, speaking
on behalf of the school authorities expressed gratitude to the
Minister for taking time to visit them.
She said the school comprising Primary and Junior High Schools
still operated the shift system, and were not under the school feeding
programme.
�Due to the shift system pupils have barely five hours to study
but most often absent themselves due to family reasons and also report
to school very late, making it difficult for them to mostly complete
their syllabus,� she stated.
Mrs Opare noted that, lack of potable water, textbooks, computer
laboratory, furniture and encroachment of the school land were some
major problems facing them.
She said although tankers sometimes provided the school with
water, they barely knew the source making it difficult for them to
make good use of it.
Mrs Opare called on the Government to review their salaries since
most of them still had some monies deducted from their salaries, and
called on parents to show some concern and participate in all
activities regarding their children�s education.
Source: GNA / Ghana
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