Major Effects of Human Rights Abuses on the Academic Performance of Pupils in a Ghanaian Basic School

Stephen Amegadzi

doi:10.7176/isde/11-1-01

Abstract

The findings and results showed that several abuses occur in the school. The findings suggest that the majority of teachers and students have knowledge of the rights of the children in school. They believe that students have right to participate in school decision making, protection against sexual harassment and verbal abuse, and protection from torture or inhumane treatment. However, there were several violations - verbal assault, sexual harassment, emotional violence, non-participation in decision making and public humiliation of students are very prevalent in the school. Both teachers and students perpetrate human rights violations. Due to violations, some students do not recognize that they have rights such as religious rights, freedom of expression and pedagogic rights. Keywords: Human Rights, Abuse and Effects DOI: 10.7176/ISDE/11-1-01 Publication date: January 31st 2020

Highlights

There are several concerns about human rights abuses especially in schools and must be condemned by all
Since this study mainly investigated the phenomenon of human rights abuse in school, the researcher decided to choose my participants from Gomoa Abonyi basic schools in the town where the researcher resides
This section focuses on the effects of human rights violations on the students in the school

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Introduction

There are several concerns about human rights abuses especially in schools and must be condemned by all. The fact that a person enrolls in junior high school does not in any way curtail his or her fundamental human rights. Pupils do all kinds of work ranging from house cleaning, feeding the children of their teachers, farming, and cooking among others for their teachers. They perform difficult household chores for teachers while living in the school. There is a perception that scoring high marks at school has very little to do with how clever or hard-working pupils are. Some pupils serve as wives for their teachers for marks, favours and money, preventing them from achieving the purpose for which they were sent to school

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