Peter Bismark Kwofie, the president of the Institute of Liberty and Policy Innovation (ILAPI), has proposed that school authorities must know the medical challenges of their students.
Kwofie said knowing these challenges will help them manage every student differently.
He added that the move will also assist the general student population to appreciate each other’s challenges and curb the incidence of bullying in schools.
Kwofie’s comments come after an alleged incident of bullying led to the death of a student at Konongo Odumase Senior High School on Friday (5 November 2021).
Medical challenges
Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday (10 November), he said, “There are individuals who go to school with other medical challenges. Some could be experiencing sickle cell, anaemia and other challenges which are not known to the school authorities and the students at large, in the process little bullying could cause the person to experience a seizure or those kinds of convulsions.”
Kwofie added, “It comes in different forms, so I think the bullying in this modern-day, we just have to stop it. However, students must also tell public officials, let them know their health status which is very key in the entire process.
Students don’t know their colleague’s health status and when they are bullied, they then experience these things,” he said.
“Bullying belongs to the past”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said that bullying in schools must belong to the past
He said bullying has no place in the modern-day Ghanaian education system.
The minister argued that it is such acts that have led to students being maimed in the country.
He cited the case at Konongo Odumase Senior High School, in which an alleged incident of bullying led to the death of a student on 5 November.
The minister speaking at a public lecture in Accra said acts of indiscipline will not be tolerated and schools should rather aim at creating a conducive environment so that students can give off their best academically.
Beverley Andoh
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