A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles
Aheto-Tsegah has called for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender/transsexual [LGBT+] activism in the education curricular.
Mr Tsegah
noted that when included in the education curricular, children will gain
knowledge on the discussions and the practices of the LGBT+ society to make an
informed decision in future.
While many
have turned down the decision to allow GES to enrol the Comprehensive Sexuality
Education subject into the education curricular, Mr Tsegah thinks otherwise.
According to him, children are
thought about other social vices to help them desist from committing mistakes
in the future and not for them to practice them.
Making his submissions in an
interview monitored by GhanaWeb, the former Director-General of GES stated that
it was imperative to teach children about the movement of the LGBT+ society to
give them knowledge about the group.
“In the education system, we
don’t teach children to mimic practices that they are thought, especially those
that are not in the interest of the public, but it is important for our
children to have [the] knowledge,” Mr Tsegah told TV3 on Thursday.
He added, “All of us are bent on
saying for lack of knowledge our people perish. It is important that the
children know that there is a certain group of individuals who say they’re
LGBT+ and this is what they do and how they came about.”
“When taught in the school, doesn’t mean children will
practice LGBT+. The comprehensive sexuality education came up…designed to
address lack of knowledge that children had on this emerging social issues so
that they would be informed to make a good decision,” the former
Director-General of GES added.
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