Ghanaian Teacher ‘Allows Students To Fight’ In Class After Canning Was Banned

Two pupils were left to fight in front of their classmates and teacher who purportedly filmed the shocking incident which happened recently in Ghana.

It is believed that the very person who filmed the
incident was the Class Teacher, since pupils are not allowed to use
phones in school.
It is claimed that the unnamed teacher left the
pupils to fight since the Ghana Education Service (GES) banned caning in
schools.

The GES in a statement signed by the Deputy Director
General, Anthony Boateng, ordered all schools to immediately adopt a new
disciplinary toolkit together with alternative sanctions as measures
for correcting pupils and students in schools.

The tool indicated
that “apart from the physical pain corporal punishment inflicts on
children, this approach also causes significant emotional damage.

Some
of the lasting effects of this method of disciplining school children
include physical scars, emotional scars (trauma, fear, timidity etc.)
and violent behaviour.”