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Dansonman teachers abandon classrooms as strike action begins

By Benjamin Adamafio Commey, GNA

Accra, Dec. 9, GNA – Pupils of Dansoman
“A” Cluster of school in the Ablekuma West Municipality were on
Monday left stranded in their various classrooms as their teachers refused to
show up.

As at the time the Ghana News Agency (GNA)
got to the school’s premises at 0900 hrs, some pupils could be seen loitering
while the majority sat idle in their classrooms with no teacher to guide them.

The few teachers who were present also sat
idle in the classrooms and the staff common rooms while a number of them also
moved about trying to maintain some level of discipline within the classrooms.

Dansoman A Cluster of School comprises five
different schools namely: Saint Augustine Anglican School, Dansoman One School,
Dansoman Four School, Tunga Islamic School and Dansoman Community School.

In an interview with GNA, Mr Kwesi Mensah, a
teacher at the Saint Augustine Anglican School, said some of the teachers had
reported to duty on the day, however, no teacher was going to teach in the
classroom.

“We have reported to school today
because the directive from our union leadership came over the weekend and we
cannot live the pupils alone in the school, especially due to their age. They
are young and may not have heard about the strike, even their parents might
have not heard about it.

He said the teachers were waiting on their
union leadership who were currently in a meeting with the Ghana Education
Service to determine the next line of action.

Mr Mensah said they are likely to stay out
of the school premises from Tuesday if GES failed to reach a consensus with the
leadership of the teacher unions.

“On Tuesday, we are supposed to begin
with the end of term examination. However, we are waiting for the directive
from our union leaders and if they do not give us any information we will stay
off the schools premises,” he said.

On Thursday December 5, three teacher unions
declared a nationwide strike effective Monday December 9 over what they
described as legacy arrears owed some of the unions members spanning from 2012
to 2016.

The teacher unions included: the Ghana
National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate
Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT).

GNA

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