Don’t charge fees for extra classes - Regional Director
The Eastern Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ms Gertrude Mensah, has cautioned teachers in senior high schools in the region not to overburden students financially (by charging extra fees for the organisation of vacation and extra classes in their various schools).
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She said teachers most often absented themselves from their normal teaching periods and rather held extra classes during vacation in order to make up for time lost during the normal teaching periods.
“Currently, there are so many cases of staff indiscipline, especially in the senior high schools, incidences of rape, sexual abuse, examination malpractices and waste of contact hours due to lateness, absenteeism and wasted time in the classroom,” she said.
“There is no need charging students for extra classes when you only want to make up for lost time,” the regional director explained.
13-member board of governors
Ms Mensah gave the warning when she inaugurated a 13-member new board of governors for the Manya Krobo Senior High School at Odumase Krobo in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.
She said indiscipline among students in the senior high schools had reached levels that were not only very disturbing but also threatened the very existence of society and needed to be corrected.
She noted that the board was responsible for the maintenance of discipline in the school as it could recommend suspension, withdrawal or dismissal of students by reason of misconduct and asked them to exercise that power judiciously as punishment must correct and reform and not destroy.
She, therefore, advised the new board to know the vision, aspirations and challenges of the school and try to join hands with the authorities of the school to find solutions to them.
The Headmaster of the school, Mr Daniel Tetteh Kwao, said there was the need for the renewal of the Parent-Teacher Association’s (PTA) special levy to enable the school to complete the wall project and the PTA-funded boys’ dormitory to ease the current congestion in the school.
Commendation
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Simon Kweku Tetteh, who was an old member of staff, commended the old board for the immense service it rendered to the school.
He gave an assurance that the municipal assembly would continue to facilitate and provide the needed support to enable the board to perform its functions successfully.
A former Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Mr Michael Teye Nyaunu, who is an old boy, who chaired the function, told the students that the choices and decisions that they made while they were in school would determine their success in future. He, therefore, advised them to eschew all the negative tendencies that would hinder their academic progress.
The new board members are the Chairman, Dr Bernard Narh Nuerty, Director General’s representative, Mr George Jerry Hanson, Eastern Regional Director, Ms Gertrude Mensah, Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Director, Madam Rose Yaa Akanyi, and the headmaster, Mr Daniel Tetteh Kwao. Others are Messrs Joseph Narh Tetteh, Gabriel Teye Matey, Emmanuel Quarshie, Stephen Tetteh, Abraham Sackitey, Edward Amanor and Nathan Narh Caesar. The rest are Dr Charles Nyarko, Seth Aduamah and Solomon Kudji, the board secretary.