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Most Rev Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye

Utilise normal school hours for academic work— Most Rev. Anokye

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Kumasi, Most Rev Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, has encouraged teachers to make maximum use of normal school hours for academic work rather than resorting to the organisation of extra and vacation classes that impose financial burden on parents.

Speaking at the dedication of the St Lwanga Junior High School building for the Martyrs of Uganda Preparatory School Complex in Kumasi, Most Rev. Anokye said he was of the strong conviction that these extra classes must be resorted to only in extreme cases but  must not be a normal feature of teaching and learning. 

He wondered why teachers who were paid to teach children did not put in extra efforts to cover their syllabi during normal school hours but rather organised vacation and extra classes, even for kindergarten pupils who were supposed to rest and refresh their minds during vacation, after school hours and on weekends.

He noted that even machines broke down when they were forced to work for  long hours.

Occasion

The students treated parents, clergy and invited guests to exciting drama and musical performances in Twi French, English, and Chinese to the amazement of the gathering.

Some past and present teaching and non-teaching staff were presented with cash prizes and certificates for contributing to the development of the school.

“Teachers have found an intelligent way of making money. I am challenging these teachers to let the children have time to rest. Psychologically, the mind must be made to rest and refreshed”, Most Rev. Anokye added.

“I don’t know what educationists think about these extra classes. I have personally never agreed to vacation classes. My whole life I never attended vacation classes. The mind, the body and soul must rest”, he stated.

Most Rev. Anokye noted that a sound mind rested in a sound body, adding that recreation was critical to the development of the human body and mind.

Most Rev. Peter Kwasi Sarpong

Most Rev. Kwasi Sarpong Emeritus I, who is the Founder of the School, expressed worry over what he described as a decision by the government and the Ghana Educational Service (GES) regarding the involvement of mission units in the management of mission schools and said heads of mission schools were endowed with vast and great human expertise in training and forming perfect pupils and students but the GES, through its policies, was engaging the church in a “shadow boxing.”

 

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