Govt has been disrespectful and insensitive to teachers -Educationist

Educationist, Norbert Gborgbortsi has described government’s attitude to teacher in the wake of the covid-19 as gross disrespect to their profession., and needs to apologise to all teachers.

Health workers were given tax-free salary and frontline workers bagged home 50% salary increase for their efforts towards reducing the Covid’19 menace.

In the case of teachers, 1 hot meal a day is given them for their contributions in the covid’19 era. This even comes as an afterthought given since basic schools re-opened about 2 months ago.

This is blatant insult and disrespect to the teaching profession by the  government emphasises how the country sees and treats teachers as insignificant and valueless.

Speaking on Ahotor 92.3 fm news, an Educationist, Norbert Gborgbortsi noted that, teachers deserve more than this they are equally exposed to the corona virus compared to the health workers who have all the PPEs as compared to teachers who are currently in the classrooms with the children.

‘A country which keeps on treating teachers as nonentities whose efforts can be paid off with a mere meal cannot witness any better development’. He added.

Adding that, government has also refused to pay teachers’ salary arrears which it promised but has been winked over, and this in addition to a meal a day is a blatant disrespect to teacher.

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