Some teachers of Gowrie Senior High Technical School numbering almost forty have petitioned the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Upper East Region, demanding immediate removal of the headmistress, Elizabeth Paaga Zinye due to her alleged authoritarian and unacceptable behavior.
According to the staff, Madam Paaga’s leadership has been characterized by controversies with this current petition being the third to have been forwarded to the directorate of GES in the region.
Some of the 25 issues they raised for which they want the Ghana Education Service to remove her from the school include appointing staff without consultation, attempting to release five key staff without reasonable justification, divide and rule tactics, Failing to properly address staff complaints, appointing junior staff over senior staff, which, they argue, goes against the norm of the public school setup.
Other concerns being raised are gagging teachers, poor leadership accounting for growing indiscipline and poor academic performance.
The staff claim that the Headmistress’ poor leadership led to attempts by an NGO to help students leave the school.
Her conduct, they say, has left the community, students, and staff worried and fed up with what they say is constant intimidation, discriminations and dictatorial tendencies.
This is reportedly the third petition filed by the staff against the Headmistress which the teachers hope the Ghana Education Service will act on.
The staff are now firmly demanding that the headmistress to either be relieved of her duties at the school or that all teachers be reposted to different schools.
MacLean Ayamga, who spoke on behalf of the aggrieved teachers, said, “We stand on the earlier signatures to demand the release of the headmistress from the school or repost all the teachers to different schools”.
The petition was received on behalf of the Regional Director.
The Headmistress while stating her desire to respond to the issues being raised told Dreamz News that she would need Clarence from the GES Directorate to before she can go public on the matter.
