TEACHER TRAINEE WRITES LETTER - MINISTER OF EDUCATION
A DISAPPOINTED TEACHER TRAINEE WRITES LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND THE MEDIA
Colleges of education over the years have been treated as
though its a minor priority to the affairs of the state. Who even cares to
fight for us through our wailing which has over the weeks rendered our hearts
in regret to even say in public I am a teacher! Our remaining feeble smiles are
fixed back with this quote "all professionals can boast but it is the
teacher who taught them all".
If it is the teacher who taught them all,
why then do people we taught and are now privileged to head positions remaining
nonchalant about the current impasse ongoing between tutors of colleges of
education and government? For God sake if you don't know or you are failing to
know, OUR TUTORS ARE ON STRIKE!
Honourable Minister, we welcomed with high esteem when you
stood before the press to taut it loud to award trainees with degree
certificate after completion, I will commend you for that but you failed to
tell us when our tutors, I mean COLLEGES OF EDUCATION tutors will be back to
the lecture halls. Could it mean that the degree certificate which became
headlines was a way to sway the attention of the general public from the almost
close to a month indefinite strike?
If that is so then you played your cards
well; "congratulations". I want to again ask, how will you feel when
your ward gets admission to the college upon the balloon admission fees and he
calls to inform you that tutors are on indefinite strike hence he is stranded
and regrets for applying to the college, will you remain nonchalant as a
Minister of education? A sensitive government will be much more concern about
the problems of his people. The efforts of TTAG, our mouth piece to put before
you what we are facing currently has remain unconcern to you. Even that of
CETAG, our tutors haven't been solved how much more that of our mouth piece,
TTAG .
Maybe colleges of education isn't your priority but we are only there to
serve as your puppets in times of election, I want to tell you we will continue
to be the "puppet".
We Colleges of education are very much disappointed with the
media for lying on the fence and depriving the general public from hearing us
as we keep shouting and pleading with the government to settle the impasse and
bring back our tutors to the lecture halls.
If colleges of education were to
adopt the KNUST style, it would have been the centre of your preference and our
problems would be peg on your news letters. We would have seen MPs, Ministers
among others hypocritically trying to salvage the situation to settle the
impasse.
Anyway, remain unconcern as the "fourth arm" of government
and when the semester is annulled you will take the issues up as you always do.
Abdul-Rahman Musah
Presbyterian College of Education
0503916684
Cc:
Ministry Of Education
Minister of Education
CETAG
TTAG
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