Mass transfer of teachers hits Soda JHS

The Kwahu Afram Plains South District Directorate of Education on Thursday December 12, 2017 transferred all teachers from Soda D/A Junior High School (JHS) at Maame Krobo.

This en-bloc transfer came as a result of a petition the teachers wrote to the directorate seeking to have in depth knowledge on the replacement of their head teacher arguing that most of them are qualified to head that position.

The transferred saw the teachers dispatched to various villages in the area.

The school has been closed down since that day where teachers have been asking if a petition is a crime.

According to the directorate, the teachers should have done that enquiry verbally but not in a written form.

This written posture of the teachers angered the directorate which transferred all the teachers.

Chiefs and elders of the community went to apologize on behalf of the teachers about four months ago but the directorate turned them down.

The 15 transferred teachers handle over four hundred pupils in the school.

Currently, they are preparing over 120 students for Basic Education Examination Certificate Examination (BECE) but the students are in a state of confusion as to when they will get new teachers who will ensure the 100% success the school has been attaining over the years.

‘The form 3 students have less than 5months to write BECE. This is the only public school we have at Maame Krobo. The future of our children, brothers, sisters, etc is at stake here. We believe in these teachers. Someone should call the directorate to order,’ an indigene told a local journalist Dickson Adjei Danso.