Amidst investigations into a recent assault by a final year student against a colleague in Quaque House, it has emerged that Adisadel College in the Central Region is in a state of mayhem as authorities have lost control over the students.
Currently, Housemasters of the school carry along weapons such as cutlass, whenever they get to campus, according to a concerned parent who enrolled his son in the second cycle institution in 2021.
In an interview on CitiFM, the anonymous male parent cited a teacher of the school as his source of information. He noted that Housemasters do so as a form of protection against the hostile students. This, he says has been happening for at least two years.
“So the teacher told me even the Senior House master when they are walking they walk with a cutlass. The House masters while walking on campus, some of them put some gadgets on them because they are scared of the students. Because they can be attacked,” he said.
He stressed: “I don’t know what is going on at that school. It is so terrible. Law and order has broken down in the school completely.”
The aggrieved parent used the opportunity to also highlight the brutality meted against his son.
He recounted the period when his ward was tasked by a group of seniors to purchase 20 sachets of water with 50 pesewas. Failing to execute the task, the young boy was pounced upon and beaten.
“They will use the belt and hook. When they are coming, they come in a group like 8, 10, 20. So when they come, you can’t do anything. So they will be beating you from any angle.
They gave my boy 50 pesewas to go and buy water about 20 sachets for the seniors and he said I don’t have anything on me. How can I use 50 pesewas to buy 20 sachets of water. That was the only thing he told them. How they beat my boy. I was so mad. That is why I called the master,” he bitterly narrated.
According to the parent, he has on several occasions informed school authorities of the reports he receives from his son, however, their response remains ” the students – that is how they have been behaving.”
He noted that he has not been able to raise the issue during a Parent and Teachers Association (PTA) meeting due to the track system.
“Normally because of the system they are running, my boy is in the house now and they are in school, so sometimes, the PTA will come on while the guys are in house. I try to communicate with the Headmaster and the assistant Headmaster. You will say it and they will say the students that is how they have been behaving.”
The parent noted that he was been compiling the relevant evidence to provide the Ghana Education Service.
His plea is “I want that thing to be stopped” as “the bullying is getting out of hand in Adisadel College.”