It is with no doubts that John Mahama and his NDC hate everything good about education and teachers. What wrong have teachers in Ghana done to the NDC?
On 21st September 2016 The Daily Graphic reported that from 2016/2017 academic year, all newly recruited teachers will have to be licensed before they can teach by writing a teacher licensure examination. Was John Mahama not the President of Ghana in 2016? Was the NDC not the party in government? What has changed about the policy to want this unnecessary threat of cancellation?
I expected John Mahama to rather attack Akufo-Addo for not starting the teacher licensure in 2017 instead of 2018. Or better still, praise Akufo-Addo for his commitment to continuing the policy introduced by you, Joh Mahama. But no, you go about threatening to cancel the teacher licensure examination.
Why can’t John Mahama be bold enough to tell Ghanaians it was his administration that introduced the policy and why he thinks it is a bad policy instead of behaving as if this policy is new to him, Akufo-Addo just conjured this policy from heaven in 2019.
Why does Mahama want to destroy a fantastic policy that is targeted at improving quality and professionalism in the teaching profession? Why is John Mahama not interested in cancelling the professional exams for Doctors, Engineers, Accountants, Lawyers, Architects, etc but only that of teachers? Mr Mahama, do you and your NDC hate teachers that much?
Under John Mahama as Vice President and President, Four-Year SHS was cancelled, tax exemptions for teachers’ car scheme cancelled, allowances for teacher trainees cancelled, allowances for nursing trainees cancelled. Why is the NDC interested in cancelling everything that benefits teachers? I am happy how the teacher Unions have been told to come out to express their support for the policy.
Please, Mr. Mahama, we are tired of today I will review this tomorrow I will cancel that. Don’t you have any originality of thought and ideas? Indeed the alternative is empty and scary.
James McKeown
Helsinki, Finland
Source: James McKeown/ Helsinki, Finland
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I'm also sure Aluta your physics teacher told you good policies don't need change or review but improvement. In any case any sensible person do not change good policies but improve on them this shows how ndc are still dumb and don't need any chance to rule Ghana again! A sheep can even reason and rule Ghana better than ndc ruling Ghana. Ndc will rot in opposition!
Am sure you also learnt from your physics teacher that, you have to accept your past mistakes first and apologise, before you can be taken seriously with what you say.
MY PHYSICS TEACHER IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, NOT SHS, A CANADIAN, USED TO TELL US IN CLASS THAT ONLY FFUUUULS DON'T CHANGE THEIR MINDS. A WELL THOUGHT THROUGH POLICY IS THE ONE THAT UNDER GOES AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES TO MAKE IT RELEVANT WITH THE TIME IN QUESTION. SOCIETY IS DYNAMIC AND POLICIES MUST VARY WITH CHANGE OF TIME AND SOCIETY. THERE IS NOTHING AS PERMANENT AS CHANGE.