P.R.O for MOE once made a promise on Basic schools Textbooks.
The new curriculum for basic schools were changed in August, 2018, because many teachers were complaining of the archaic curriculum been used, which has less impact on the learners.
Since the introduction of this initiative, most teachers, stakeholders and parents were very excited, since they thought the new curriculum will improve and impact the learners positively.
Hon Matthew Opoku Prempeh and professor Opoku Amankwaa were the Minister of Education and Direction of Ghana Education service respectively. The current Education minister was the deputy minister of Education, they made teachers know and believe in the new curriculum about to be introduced, though it was a bit unclear.
The workshop or training for the various teachers/facilitators took place in August, 2018, for nursery, kindergarten and primary 1-6 facilitators at various Metropolitan/Municipals and Districts, and it implementation took effect in September 2018.
By and by, facilitators were finding it a bit difficult to deliver since the course materials were not ready then.
A year after the materials were not ready, facilitators begun making complaints and raising alarm to the hearing of the public, the media took a step to question all executives who were responsible for this, the only issue that came up was they are still working on the materials, it will get ready soon.
Fast forward, January, 2022, Junior High Schools facilitators were called for training on the new curriculum about to be introduced in January that same year. Since the introduction of the new curriculum till date no material for both primary and Junior high schools has been out to facilitate easy teaching and learning.
The Ministry of Education’s Public Relations Officer(PRO) Mr Akwasi Kwarteng, after teachers and other stakeholders have been silence since about six and two years of changes of the primary and junior high schools curriculum, no positive result has been yielded, made a promise that the basic schools textbooks will be made available in September 2022, we are almost in September 2024, which will mark two years of when he made such promise, but no positive news has popped out of his empty promise.
The questions many are asking are;
“So are they aware there are no textbooks in Public schools in Ghana”?
“Do the Managers of Ghana Education Service really care about the welfare of these little children”?
“Yet they order Siso’s to come and inspect lesson note from teacher, when they have failed their primary duties”.
Teachers and stakeholders are truly not happy with these textbooks delay and it negative impact on learners is something we cannot discuss currently.
Teachers must raise up and kick against this lackadaisical attitude from the Ministry of Education. They have no respect for Teachers, children, parents and stakeholders.