Friday, June 3, 2011

TEACHERS SHOULD BE SCANNED FOR SANITY BEFORE EMPLOYMENT

TEACHERS SHOULD BE SCANNED FOR SANITY BEFORE EMPLOYMENT


The rise in the odd acts in our teachers in our schools have reached an alarming level that there is a need for action to be taken against these kinds of teachers .The TSC has to do the filtering well so that we do not end up with monsters in our schools instead of the good and decent teachers that we expect out of our educationists and as the ethics of the profession goes.

A week hardly passes before we read in the press or hear about them in the media in general .They are either gays who end up using their positions in power in the schools to satisfy the sexual needs,to sodomise the kids .Sometimes,they are lesbians who do the same as the gays ,or through some unexplainable situations they end up killing or mishandling the students in many different ways .

It is not in kenya alone that this problem exists .A Mathematics teacher at Adissadel College (ADISCO) in Cape Coast was dismissed by the school authorities for sodomising some of the students. The gay teacher, Richard Atta Panyin, was alleged to have abused six students of the school but only one of ...them was bold enough to reveal his ordeal to the authorities. The victim (name withheld) is said to have fallen sick, and when he was interrogated by doctors at the hospital where he had been sent, he unravelled the Maths teacher’s unholy activities. According to an impeccable source at the school, Panyin, who had previously taught at St Augustine’s College, had been sacked for a similar offence in his previous school and later relocated to ADISCO in late 2010. It said the activities of Panyin, who is married with three children, came to light when the sick student identified him to the doctor attending to him, who in turn reported the teacher to the ADISCO authorities. It indicated that Panyin appeared before a disciplinary committee set up by the school a couple of weeks ago and his dismissal was recommended after his explanations had been found to be unsatisfactory. Efforts to contact Panyin for his version failed because he was said to have left the school compound immediately after his dismissal. When contacted on phone, the Headmaster of ADISCO, Mr H. K.K. Graham, failed to confirm or deny the story. He hanged the phone when he realised that he was talking to the Daily Graphic. The incident comes barely a forthnight after a female Lecturer at the Takoradi Polytechnic was dismissed for forcing students into lesbianism .

Surely, the best way to handle these problems is to have the TSC and the other arms of the ministry of education that deal with the employment and administration of our educationists to thoroughly test them for psycological and other mental health fitness before they can be allowed to handle the students.Ending up with Homosexuals and murderous in class is very embarassing .