Members of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers are threatening to reduce their contact time with their students if government continues with plans to scrap teacher 'motivation allowance'.
Government says it has scrapped the ‘teacher motivational allowance’ paid to teachers every term.
The motivation allowance is levied on students and serves as an incentive for teachers.
However, government says students will no longer be charged from the next academic term.
The coalition says the decision was a hasty one and ill-informed.
King Ali Awudu, Vice President of the Coalition said in an interview on PEACE FM news @ 12 that “this decision to pay motivation fee was not started by the government, indeed it was started by the parents themselves. We complained about the challenges we go through to do the extra hours in the classroom. Per GES regulations, a teacher goes to school at 8am and closes at 1:30pm but we stay for an additional 2 hours for just GHC10. And this is what government is making noise about? Then will also take away that 2 hours from our teaching time."
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