TEACHERS URGED TO BE PATIENT (PAGE 11, DEC 21)

THE Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education, Mrs Elizabeth Amoah-Tetteh, has urged teachers to be patient for the Government to find lasting solutions to their problems.
Mrs Amok-Tetteh was responding to some concerns of teachers at a forum organised by the Member of Parliament for the Tema West Constituency, Mrs Irene Naa Torshie Addo, for about 1,000 teachers drawn from the constituency.
The forum afforded the teachers the opportunity to interact with the deputy minister and to put across the challenges facing them.
Some of the concerns were about the non-payment of allowances, delayed promotions, cuts in administrative grants for teachers affordable houses.
Mrs Amoah-Tetteh commended the teachers, especially those who teach at the basic level, for their contribution to nation building.
She said the President was aware of their predicament and was working towards finding lasting solutions to them, hence the systematic approach to their situation.
Mrs Amoah –Tetteh noted that teachers had sacrificed sufficiently and would need to be rewarded accordingly, adding “without you teachers, nation building and human resource development will be lacking”.
She said no amount of ridicule should deter them from doing their good work.
The Tema West MP pledged to make available, her funds for 2010, for education in Tema West.
She said she had plans to acquire 678 computers for schools in the constituency, and expressed cncern about the condition of some schools in Batsonaa, Sakumono and Spintex road areas.
Mrs Addo expressed worry that some of the schoolchildren had no tables and sat on stones for their classes under dilapidated structures and therefore, expressed the need to support them.
She called on the teachers to form small clubs within their areas of operation to enable them to know one another better to be able to render support when necessary.