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Sawla, Ghana – The Center For Active Learning and Integrated Development (CALID), has begun a review process in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District to establish the cause of poor students performance at the annual Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
At a recent forum in Sawla, which saw many education stakeholders including nongovernmental organizations, parents, teachers, chiefs and other opinion leaders attending, has pointed out few things hindering the success of students in the district.
Participants said most teachers of various schools in the district now want to go back to school for further studies in order to upgrade their knowledge. They observed that the practice though good in a way is also at the expense of students especiall when there is no immediate arrangement by the Ghana Education Service to post new teachers to replace those who are on study leave.
Others also pointed out nightly activities such as disco and parties which makes children to roam around into the wee hours of the night instead of staying at home to read their books. They noted with concern that such activities are promoting indiscipline and poor performance in the schools and therefore, called for bye-laws to regulate them so that children can be compelled to study at night.
Chief of Tuna, Tunawura Seidu Awusi also indicated that the lack of furniture in most schools, depilated classrooms, gravel-like classroom floors and lack of support from the DCE and the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Assembly are seriously affecting the quality of education in the area.
He said the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba DCE has not been supportive in the betterment of the district, and as representative of the President, he is supposed to be up and doing by providing the people with basic social services.
A representative of the GES challenged parents to report any teacher who falls foul in the discharge of their duties.
Teacher absenteeism and other indiscipline acts like drunkenness, he said, must stop especially during classes hours.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of CALID, Mohammed Awal Sumani Bapio, said the review of students performance between 2013 and 2017 has shown that students failed woefully and it was time to call everyone on board for the success of pupils in the district.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Mahama Haruna
