Knowlegde to the Highest Bidder

The new harsh Realities of Education in Ghana

this is an up and coming article on educationan in Ghana.

BATTLE FOR THE SOUL

The Religionist Lobby in Ghana Extend Their War Into the Classroom The Bishops, Reverends, Pastors, Evangelists, Apostles, Prophets, Prophetesses Prayer Warriors etc in the church crazy nation of Ghana are on the warpath. They are cross at what they describe as “the Godless nature of the new Educational Reform” Apparently the new Education Reform had deleted the ‘Religious and Moral Education’ (RME) course from the Elementary school syllabi. The Catholic bishop Conference of Ghana issued a strongly worded statement condemning the omission. Furthermore they instructed the heads of all catholic sponsored but government assisted schools to implement a strict daily regime of religious teaching. The powerful Christian council of Ghana -which is a pressure group comprising all the churches on Ghana (and is an awful lot of them) - has joined the fray and has demanded the reinstitution of the RME without delay. My opinion on this issue is that the battle is really one to convert young impressionable minds into Christianity. At such a young age it is pretty easy to pump religious dogmas into the heads of people and you’re sure it will stick for a lifetime. I quite remember that my brush with RME during my school days was a dominated by passages from the bible and overt Christian proselytizing. The burgeoning church industry sees it survival in the young ones coming through and it is desperate to lock a steady stream of followers for the future. However what the Religious Zealots forget is that Ghana is a Secular Constitutional entity than guarantees the religious freedoms of all manners of persons with any form religious believe whilst the state maintains a neutral religious posture .However the reality of RME is that it teaches Christianity to young impressionable minds using the platform provided by a supposedly religious-neutral state. Again the threat by the catholic Bishops to compel head teachers to enforce catholic values is taking it too far.

PERSECUTION OF TEACHERS In Ghana

There is a disturbing trend currently sweeping through the education sector in Ghana that threatens not only the teaching profession but also the hard won freedom of speech in Ghana as well. Teachers who dare to make true public statements about the teething problem associated with the New Educational Policy are being targeted for demotions threats and transfers. All this is happening without any concrete resistance from the institutions that are charged with safeguarding the freedom of Speech of all Ghanaians and the rights of teachers. I am urging all Ghanaians worth their citizenship to stand up to the increasingly politicized Ghana Education Service and the inept NPP Government.This Stupid government is taking advantage of the uncritical nature of the loudest Ghanaian public commentators to commiit some atrocious crimes. In two widely publicized cases a Headteachers inTema has been demoted and transferred to another school for saying on radio that there has not been a high enrolment rate since the beginning of the New Educational Reform as anticipated. The other case involves an educationist in the Accra Metro Educational Office who questioned the availability of enough resources to implement the educational Reforms.He was issued with an official query and a threat of a transfer. Ghanaians wake up and fight this injustice.