It is really interesting and quite mind boggling people usually say, if your (teachers) salary is not enough why don't you stop the profession? Is very demanding on teachers to answer that question. The answer is simple. We love teaching and the foundation for building the nation rest in our hands for nurturing generation upon generation which will take the mantle of our nation in their hands. The little we offer to them, the little they will offer to the nation and the bigger we offer to them the bigger they will offer to the nation.
Teachers are not greedy and have never been greedy in Ghana. All that we require is better professional treatment. Teachers are able to do with the little we are given and we are grateful. If we cannot be paid enough why do government have to starve us? Teachers in Ghana are faced with numerous arrears such as salaries, promotion, upgrade, transfer grant and responsibility allowance. If government cannot pay teachers enough salaries why what is due teachers are always in arrears suffering from depreciation and what have you.
As I write today, the government of Ghana still own some teachers salary arrears from 2014 till date. Even if government has paid majority and still has left just one teacher, the effect is still huge considering the number of students who have passed in the hands of such teacher for almost six years now and considering the teacher has not been giver his/her possible best due to ill professional treatment.The government of Ghana has coupled the same attitude towards the newly recruited trained teachers employed in December, 2019 only paid their April,2020 salaries leaving four months arrears only God knows when it would be paid.
Again, there are substantive number of teachers in the Asutifi North District in the Ahafo Region who have been teaching since 2016 whiles some have done Bio-metric and haven't been paid a coin since their assumption of teaching. These are verifiable facts which no official of Ghana Education Service and Ministry of Education can deny. It is therefore in the interest of mother Ghana to begin treating teachers with some sense of dignity.
#TEACHERS ARE IN PAIN IN GHANA
By Sir. Vincent
Teachers are not greedy and have never been greedy in Ghana. All that we require is better professional treatment. Teachers are able to do with the little we are given and we are grateful. If we cannot be paid enough why do government have to starve us? Teachers in Ghana are faced with numerous arrears such as salaries, promotion, upgrade, transfer grant and responsibility allowance. If government cannot pay teachers enough salaries why what is due teachers are always in arrears suffering from depreciation and what have you.
As I write today, the government of Ghana still own some teachers salary arrears from 2014 till date. Even if government has paid majority and still has left just one teacher, the effect is still huge considering the number of students who have passed in the hands of such teacher for almost six years now and considering the teacher has not been giver his/her possible best due to ill professional treatment.The government of Ghana has coupled the same attitude towards the newly recruited trained teachers employed in December, 2019 only paid their April,2020 salaries leaving four months arrears only God knows when it would be paid.
Again, there are substantive number of teachers in the Asutifi North District in the Ahafo Region who have been teaching since 2016 whiles some have done Bio-metric and haven't been paid a coin since their assumption of teaching. These are verifiable facts which no official of Ghana Education Service and Ministry of Education can deny. It is therefore in the interest of mother Ghana to begin treating teachers with some sense of dignity.
#TEACHERS ARE IN PAIN IN GHANA
By Sir. Vincent
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