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The arrest of twelve teachers for their complicity in malpractices during the ongoing BECE is telling.
In our editorial earlier on the examination which ends tomorrow we did call for deterring sanctions against persons who are found to be breaching examination standards. Little did we know at the time of the composition that some teachers had primed themselves to do just. The motive for this breach is beyond our ken and we shudder to think about its fallout on the morals of our growing children.
It is beyond our ken why professional teachers will descend so low as to answer questions for BECE candidates and think they are helping the kids. Of course this is not help but destruction.
It would be important to know the motivation which informed the decision of the teachers to do what they did.
Police investigations into the subject is critical because among other reasons it would establish whether or not a network has been active in the breaches.
A child who gets used to being brought up this way on the academic ladder will be dependent on it for life their moral standing suffering negatively as they grow.
It is regrettable that at this formative period in the lives of our children who are writing their first public examination, adults, teachers for that matter will succumb to such a depth of moral humiliation and drawing innocent children along with them.
We salute those who unearthed the malpractice and demand that the culprits be dealt according to law without delay.
The integrity of public examination should not be compromised by unscrupulous adults in the educational system.
In such matters the importance of deterrence should not be disregarded regardless of whose ox is gored.
The occurrence is an indication that even in subsequent years vigilance should be the watchword in public examination no matter the level.
Many would have thought that with children concerned such bad adults would have steered away. Not so however, as the arrests showed.
With malpractices starting from this stage it can only be imagined the repercussions it would visit on the children in future.
Children who are introduced to examination malpractices are prone to becoming moral deviants in future.
Those who are not contributing positively towards the moulding of the country’s future leaders, our children, should not be allowed near such young persons in the education system.
It is our take that the culprits as part of the punishment going to be meted out to them should be barred from the teaching profession. Their negative influence on the children will definitely not inure to the morals of the kids.
The country should know the identities of these teachers by naming and shaming them.