“Someone wears rasta, you should also be able to wear your cap or hat. We really do not care about that in anyway."

That was the reaction of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) on the High Court ruling that Achimota School should admit the Rastafarian boys into the school.

In an interview with Accra-based Citi news, the President of NAGRAT, Angel Cabornu said they do not care about character formation of students anymore, "because our professional understanding of character formation has been truncated by a court ruling and you want us to care. We are going to obey the court ruling."

According to Mr Cabornu who was fully in support of the decision by the school to reject the boys, his outfit cannot be bothered about the repercussions of the court’s ruling, given that NAGRAT’s quest to reform students’ character through the enforcement of specific codes of conduct in various schools had been truncated by the court.

He intimated that the court’s order only means that students in various schools are at liberty to dress anyhow.

“What the judgement means is that the Rasta students and all other students can dress any way and go to school, and we teachers do not have to waste our time and energy talking about character formation. We thank the court for making our work easy.”

“Someone wears rasta, you should also be able to wear your cap or hat. We really do not care about that in anyway. We do not care about character formation because our professional understanding of character formation has been truncated by a court ruling and you want us to care. We are going to obey the court ruling” he said.

In his vehement opposition of the idea of admitting the boys, Mr Carbonu even suggested that Rastafarians should set up their own schools in Ghana if they want their children to keep their dreadlocks in Senior High Schools (SHS).

“I don’t even know why the Rastafarians don’t have their own schools, because they’ve been in this country [Ghana] for a very long time,” Mr Angel Carbonu had said earlier.