Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Anyaa Sowutuom, Dr. Dickson Adomako Kissi, has asked the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to concentrate on developing a good curriculum for Ghanaian schools and also tackling the problems with the school placements other than concentrating on students’ hair dos.
Speaking on GHOne TV’s Morning Show, GHToday, on Monday, October 27, 2025, the former MP said that the Ministry and GES ought to focus on tackling what he described as the ‘truest’ headache of Ghana’s education.
“Our focus should be on a very good curriculum, our focus should be on a very good placement, and discipline from students to teachers to principal and to parents. Right now, our truest headache is school placement…,” he said.
Dr. Adomako-Kissi’s comment was in reaction to the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu’s reaction to debates on social media about students’ hairstyles and grooming standards.
The Minister while speaking at the 75th Anniversary celebrations of the Mawuli School stressed that schools exist to mould character, not to host beauty contests.
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“There is an ongoing debate on social media about haircuts and size and lengths of hair in Secondary Schools. We’ll not tolerate today, we’ll not tolerate it tomorrow, in so long as we are moulding character. If we give in to hair today, tomorrow it will be shoes and the next day it will be the way they dress.
“Therefore, as part of our disciplinary measures, Headmasters and GES you’re accordingly empowered to take full control of how students behave on your campuses. So anybody who thinks that your child will walk into any institution of learning, as if that Child was to attend a beauty contest, the school environment is not for that purpose and not cut for that purpose and will not tolerate that as an institution,” he said.
The ex-Law maker, despite believing discipline in schools ought not be compromised said the nature of hair dos of students in second cycle institutions ought not be part of the major issues of the Ministry and the Minister in particular.
“Discipline is very important in schools, and that whether nappy hair, long hair, curly hair. I don’t think is much to do about nothing…,” he said.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh/Kwaku Nti
