Ghana Education Service (GES)
Municipal Directorate for Wenchi Municipality in the Bono Region has blamed the
poor BECE grades obtained by students in the area on Nana Addo’s free SHS,
teacher’s absenteeism amongst others.
David Baffoe who is the Public Relations
Officer (PRO) of the Wenchi Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education
Service noted that the attitude of teachers and pupils not attending school
regularly continues to affect the performance of pupils in the BECE.
He added that in 2017, the Municipality
recorded 68% in the BECE, 67% in 2018 but in 2019 the municipality recorded as
low as 25% in the exams.
On why his office also blames the
free SHS policy, he revealed that because the policy is pushing everyone to
school, the students in the area are no more studying because they know whether
they fail or not they would still attend SHS.
He, however, noted that the Free
SHS policy is good for promoting education just that the pupils have taken
advantage of it to not pull their weight.
To improve the performance, he
noted that the Municipality was taking various measures such as punishing
absentee teachers and checking truancy on the part of pupils.
“The teachers are the drivers of the
curriculum. If things will go well, it depends on them. We are putting in place
measures to ensure that the absenteeism of teachers is minimized. We had some
teachers in some circuits absenting themselves up to 28 days out of the 70
days. Teachers must live up to expectation to be able to improve on the
performance of the pupils”
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