DG of GES and Min. of Education must resign if textbooks are not supplied to schools

I am not sure I am far from being right to call on the Director-General of GES and the Minister of Education to resign if textbooks are not supplied to schools in 2022.

It is time all stakeholders of education mount the highest pressure on the leadership of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and The Ministry of Education (MoE) to supply basic schools with textbooks before schools resume in January 2022.

The Director-General of GES and The Minster of Education must resign if the textbooks are not supplied to schools for a perfect start of the 2022 academic year. We cannot take forever to wait in dealing with a self-imposed problem.

Will these books be available for term one or we shall be told some long winding stories and given reasons why the books are not ready when schools reopen?

Parents and teachers must find their voices and lead this crusade if we are to get those in leadership to act as required of them.

Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), confirmed that new textbooks for the Standard Based Curriculum for Kindergarten (KG) and Primary Schools would be available in the 2022 academic year.

Does the Education Minister work without the requisite tools and resources?  What about the Director-General of Education? The answer to both questions is No. So why deny teachers of the most basic tools (Textbooks) and the students of the same materials? We have had enough of this textbook wahala.

By 20^th January 2022, all basic schools would have resumed for the 2022 academic year. Teachers will need textbooks for themselves and their pupils to ensure effective teaching and learning.

The promise by the Minister regarding the supply of the textbooks did not state whether the books will be ready in January 2022 for schools to use when the first term begins.

In the absence of these resources for schools, our children will suffer another term or year without access to quality learning even if our teachers continue to sacrifice for the effective and efficient management of the situation created by the lack of textbooks.

Although schools are on vacation, the government needs to keep parents and teachers updated on what has been done so far to resolve the lack of books for schools three years after the introduction of the new curriculum.

If the production of the textbooks has commenced, how many have been produced per subject? Keeping stakeholders updated would be helpful. A timeline would not be bad as well.

The Education Minister must resign if the textbooks are not ready at the start of the new academic year.

Ghanaians in general, Teachers, parents, and their children must demonstrate their displeasure openly with all the seriousness it deserves against the lack of proactiveness of the Education Ministry in dealing with the textbook challenge if schools should open without these textbooks being supplied to our public and private schools.

Teachers must wake up and call their unions and leaders to order and compel them to put maximum pressure on the GES and MoE to act.

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Teachers and learners deserve respect from leadership and the first unresolved wahala that needs to be tackled is the lack of textbooks for schools.

No more excuses. The two government institutions have had enough time to deal with this bottleneck and their failure to resolve this must be tolerated from January 2022.

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The patience of parents and teachers has been tested for too long. This lack of performance must not be allowed in 2022.

If the GES and MoE have something to do to ensure the textbooks are ready and supplied to schools in record time, they better start it now.

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Source: Wisdom Hammond