2024 WASSCE: Teacher attacked by students for preventing exam malpractice

• Posted on September 19, 2024September 19, 2024
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Teachers at Christian Methodist Senior High School, (Chrimeto) in New-Aplaku, in the Greater Accra Region, have allegedly been stoned by some students at the school.

The teachers said they were attacked because they did not allow the students to cheat during the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

In an amateur video available to 3News, one can see the angry students chasing the teachers and pelting them with stones and sachet water. One of the assaulted teachers, Walter Yesutor Adanunyo was captured in the video running for his dear life.

Narrating the incident on Ghana Tonight with Alfred Ocansey, Mr. Walter Yesutor Adanunyo explained that he was in the school with his Head of Department after Monday’s integrated science paper and one of the students came back to inform them about a mob at the school’s gate, who said that they would have to hurt him, Walter, because he was too strict in the exam room.

“So, when the girl came to tell us, we called the headmaster. And then he also called the police patrol team, and then they came to sack those students in the school, those who were on the compound. Because after them, all the papers were taken away from the compound. And then we were done with the day’s business.” – Mr. Adanunyo narrated while speaking via a zoom interview on Ghana Tonight.

He said subsequently, on Tuesday, September 17, the police were not around and students started throwing pure water and stones at them.

Mr. Adanunyo said “We were three permanent teachers and two service personnel. So, I told them that, okay, so since the attention is there, let’s try and go. Not knowing, some of the students used other routes. And then they met us halfway. That was when they started ‘hey, I am strict in the exam room. I don’t want anybody to copy. Why would I not allow them to cheat in the exam room?” – the angry students queried him.

He recalled that the police allegedly arrested four of the students but he cannot confirm if those where the same students that confronted him.

“I don’t know if they were the people in my statement, which I gave at the police station. I doubt. But I wrote their names. If you want me to give their names to you, I can give their names to you off-air. He concluded.

A similar incident occurred during WASSCE a few years ago when students at the Bright Senior High School in the Eastern region exhibited similar tendencies.

-3news