The situation currently unfolding across the various public colleges of education is deeply worrying, yet many remain silent about it. It is deeply troubling, and it is difficult to describe it as anything other than unfair to the teacher trainees who are caught in the middle of decisions they did not cause. First-year students in particular are the silent victims. Many of them reported to their colleges full of hope, only to spend months without meaningful academic work. For students who are supposed to be laying the foundation of their professional training, the reality has been empty lecture halls, uncertainty, and frustration. One must ask, plainly and honestly, what is the crime of these teacher trainees. Is choosing teacher education now a punishment? Is their time considered disposable? When will the industrial actions of CETAG end? These are questions the Ministry of Education GH, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, and the 'government and relevant stakeholders...