Drunken Teachers To Be Dismissed

Gomoa Aboso (C/R), Aug 19, - The Central Regional manager of the A.M.E. Zion Educational Unit, the Rev Helena Obu, has said that measures have been taken to dismiss drunkard teachers from the Ghana Education Service. Drastic action will also be taken against teachers who absent themselves from school without permission, lateness to school and other related indiscipline which have contributed to the falling standard of education in the country. Rev Obu said these at the open day of Aboso-Benso A.M.E. Zion Primary and JSS at Gomoa Aboso at the weekend. She said the GES will conduct periodic examinations in all primary six classes to assess the performance of the pupils, saying that the outcome will prove whether the teachers are really working or not. Rev Obu said government will ensure that by the year 2005 every Ghanaian child would have access to basic education. The regional manageress emphasised that the success of the FCUBE programme does not depend on teachers alone but it reauires the collective efforts of parents, guardians and the community to achieve its objectives. Mr Emmanuel O. Oduro, headteacher of the school, said some of the children are studying under temporary sheds and appealed to the Gomoa District Assembly to help build three classrooms. He said the present classrooms have no windows.