If We Do Not Fight WEAC Examination Malpractices In Our Schools, Sexual Siphoning Will Still Be On The Rise

It may be too early for me to write on examination malpractice since the next series of the West African Examination Council exams start in the month of May. This piece is however specially in response to the recent alerts on sex exploitation in our Junior and Senior High Schools in the country.

I have another bomb on examination malpractice in the pipeline readying for timely publish in the due season.

A grade a student attains in school based or internal exams has no contribution on grade a candidate shall score in the external exams conducted by WAEC. Why would a student be deceicved into this stupidity of allowing herself to be used by a teacher in exchange for grade in a terminal or school based internal exam?

Having taught for eight years at the Senior High School and knowing what is actually on the ground, the real issue to be bothered is not actually about internal exams. Apart from the genuine reason of economic hardship some female students face that could lead to them being sexually exploited, 'Sex-give away' from a student to a teacher in the SHS is a bait to catch examination assistance during her WASSCE exams. Female students secure themselves male teachers both old and young with regular sexual satisfaction with the aim of being assisted during WASSCE examination. This is because these same teachers in their respective schools invigilate and supervise the WAEC exams.

When a man is after a woman: trying to make her convinced to sleep with him, the temptation on the man is not as grievous as compared to when a woman who has well rehearsed decides to lure a man into her trap. When sex offer comes from a female, one out of thousand men can be resolved enough to flee. On that, I pity our able hardworking male teachers in Ghana. Sorry for your suffer and afflictions.

However, you teachers are sole responsible for your own afflictions. The temptations you face are crafted by yourselves. When you have perfectly outwitted external and internal supervision apparatus during WAEC exams and have successfully assisted candidates to pass, do you think the remaining junior student population can take their mind off you? All eyes will be on you: counting on you for same help during their turn.

The only sure gamble to bind you the male teacher and make you commit to help them during their turn is to make sexual advances towards you and offer to you sex. Sometimes, male students can even influence their female colleagues to get intimate to a teacher. Students have in mind that if one beautiful female candidate is assisted in an exam Hall, all candidates in that Hall will benefit.

Would these affected female students remain silent when they are being exploited if the pressure is always coming from the teachers? Of course not, the blame ought to be evenly distributed.

Thanks to the current Government, the issue of students yielding to the pressure of teachers for sex due to poverty and hardship is sure to gradually minimise. The rolled out free SHS will play her part by catering for the tuition fees, food and other needs of the female student.

This grievous temptation on the male teacher to commit sexual sin with the female student is sure to ease and free when the student know that there is absolutely no room for misconduct during external examinations.

Conduct of examination vary from one school to another based on the school's level of discipline. Sex siphoning is on the low, not common and highly abominable in schools who have discipline heads: who have consistently to their best ensured that WAEC examination is conducted well, devoid of misconduct.Teacher-student sex relationship is however not checked at all nor addressed in schools that welcome examination malpractice during external exams.

As these issues have been raised, the Ghana Education Service and Ministry of Education will go every mile to exercise disciplinary transfers to offenders. What next? The problem will not solve if we consistently turn deaf ear and blind eye to malpractices during the conduct of WAEC exams because of one's selfish gains.

Our Directors of Education and WAEC Examination Supervisors, you are sure to be hailing sexual exploitation in our schools if you ignore examination malpractices.

God have mercy on us all.
God save our nation, Ghana.
Evangelist Samoa Mensa.