Cries of Ghanaian Professional Graduate Teachers over Upgrading! By Abdul-Latif Ahmed
I am a teacher in Tamale. I have been appalled and demoralized by the discrimination of professional graduate teachers in this Country. I have worked very hard to get and keep my job, investing thousands of Ghana cedis into my education. After doing cost-benefit analysis, I knew I would never make back, with my teacher's salary even after upgrading, yet I'm been denied upgrading, but I did it anyway because I love teaching and I wanted to be the best teacher I could be. Professional techers are now been demoralised with a policy fuelled and driven by sheer jealousy and envy. How can there be a policy saying, some subjects been taught in our high schools, are not approved for upgrading let alone study leave. I don't want to believe this is a government policy, but silence they say means consent. This is a policy fashioned out by frustrated teachers who have all of a sudden become administrators and want to hold on to their positions but feel that the young professional t...