President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Philipa Larson has revealed that final year senior high school students in the country were expecting cheap questions in this year’s WASSCE examination because of the free SHS policy.
According to her, majority of the final year students did not take their studies serious leading to their disappointment over the nature of questions.
It comes on the back of the violence that has engulfed this year’s WASSCE over complaints of strict invigilation and difficult questions by candidates.
Speaking to Morning Starr sit-in host Monday, Mrs Larson said students have no excuse over their decision to attack the President over the questions.
“Are the students saying that if the questions were bought by their parents and not by the government, they’ll go home and insult their parents? I don’t understand why some students went about destroying property because the past questions didn’t appear. Other students were happy about the exams.
“Some students took the exams for granted. Maybe they thought because the SHS education was free, the exams were going to be free, in the sense that questions were going to be cheap,” she told host Lantam Papanko.
She also pleaded to the government for the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools.
“I think that as a country we should look at corporal punishment and bring it back in a way”.
