A Former Eastern Regional Organizer of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) Justice Tettey is questioning the authority of the Ghana Education Service to bar some final year Senior High School (SHS) students from continuing their WASSCE.
The GES announced the decision in a statement in response to widely circulated videos of the students verbally attacking President Akufo-Addo for misleading them into focusing their attention on government supplied past questions that were not helpful in the examinations hall.
Aside barring the offending students from continuing their examinations, the GES also dismissed the students from their current schools in addition to surcharging students in schools where properties were vandalized.
A former NAGRAT Eastern Regional Organizer Justice Tettey however says the GES overreached its authority.
He told Sena Nombo on Pro-Forum Hour that the decision as to who writes the WASSCE is the preserve of the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
Mr. Tettey said the students by registering for the WASSCE entered into a contractual arrangement with WAEC.
He said only WAEC can bar a student from writing the examination and wondered why the GES felt it had the capacity to take such an action.
Mr. Tettey said the GES should have limited itself to the dismissal of the students from school.
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
