Welcome back to school
The festivities that come with Christmas and the New Year have come and gone.
Everyone, including our students, had his or her share of the festivities, which were both refreshing and hectic.
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The adage: "All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy" is as relevant today as it will be in the years to come.
It applies in our daily lives, just as it does in our education, and that is why even final-year students are allowed a break to refresh themselves before going back to school.
Thankfully, everything is over and it is now time for serious business, just as it applies to studies for students.
On Sunday, January 5, 2020, all students in senior high schools (SHSs), except those in the Form Two Gold Track, headed back to their respective schools to plunge into full academic work on January 6, 2020.
Some of the schools issued warning that they would not tolerate any lateness and absenteeism at the close of January 5, 2020.
The Daily Graphic wishes to join the management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the schools to welcome all students back to school.
We believe that all students have had enough rest from the festive mood and are geared up for academic work. There should be no excuse for any student to go lazing about because there is no time for lazing in the current educational dispensation.
The management of education has programmed the semester system in such a way that the loss of even a day’s academic work means a lot. With the contact hours now 1,134 a year, as against 1,080 under the trimester, it is anticipated that students will not be disadvantaged with the current double-track system arrangement.
The current semester system gives enough contact hours for students to make the best out of school and we endorse school administrators who are bent on ensuring that students make judicious use of their time.
Soon, all first-year students will write their end-of-semester examinations and there is, therefore, no room to laze about.
We expect that students will move to their respective schools, as directed by the GES management, and remain in school, with studies as their priority.
The Daily Graphic wishes to remind the students that the government has invested so much in their education, and that is why they are enjoying free education under the free SHS programme, and the best they can do for the government is to focus on their studies and nothing else.
We believe each student has a reason he or she is in school, and that parents have spoken enough to their children on how to take responsibility for their actions and inaction. Therefore, in spite of peer pressure, each student should always remember the last words his or her parents spoke to him or her.
As students, you must make use of whatever resources are available; pay attention in class, attend school functions, eat as much as possible from the dining hall, do not look at what others have but be content with whatever your parents can afford for you.
Remember, we are not the same, and so our parents’ resources are not equal.
That is why you must be grateful and appreciate whatever your parents give you.
The Daily Graphic urges the management of schools to ensure that students follow laid down rules and regulations while in school by avoiding unruly behaviours and taking care of school property.
We wish you all a happy stay in school and all the best in your upcoming end-of-semester examinations, and for final-year students, we say finish hard and make yourselves, your parents, your schools and, above all, Ghana proud.
We wish to urge all students to make use of the opportunity availed them by the government and study hard to justify the investment so far made in them.
