Avoid Substance Abuse – VR GES Director to Students

 

The Volta Regional Director of Education, Mr. Francis Yao Agbemadi, has cautioned young people to stop abusing substances but learn diligently towards a bright future.

“Once you get addicted and drift off-course, there is no guarantee you will easily get back on track,” he said.

Mr. Agbemadi was speaking at this year’s Speech and Prize-Giving Day of Tanyigbe Senior High School (SHS) in the Ho Municipality.

The event was on the theme: Discipline – The Key To Achieving Academic Excellence.

The Regional Director of Education touched on the theme and said, “it spoke directly to what made education transformation and sustainable.”

“In an era marked by rising instances of substance abuse, violent conduct and other forms of deviant behaviour among the youth, no theme could be more suitable,” ne noted.

Mr. Agbemadi said Tanyigbe SHS stood as a living testament to the transformation power of discipline, adding that from its humble beginning in 1991, the school had grown through perseverance, visionary leadership and the unwavering commitment of its staff and students.

He said, among the school’s alumni were many distinguished men and women serving in various sectors of the Ghanaian economy and that was ample proof of what discipline produced.

The headmaster, Mr. Etse Godstime Seake-Kwawu, said the school now had an enrolment of 666 students.

He said Tanyigbe SHS had no reliable source of water, and so, the students fetched water from a stream in the community.

Meanwhile, the headmaster said the absence of a perimeter fence around the school allowed miscreants and stray animals to gain easy access to the compound, which had only two watchmen.

He also appealed to the government to take steps to complete the dining hall, administration block, residential facilities house parents, and the 12-unit classroom block on the campus for the smooth and effective running of the school.

An indigence of Tanyigbe, Professor Dennis Yao Dzansi, said social changes to parenting gaps had diluted traditional structures of discipline.

Addressing them, he said it required a multi-stakeholder approach where parents, teachers, communities, and policymakers worked together to instill discipline in a nurturing yet firm manner.

Prizes were awarded to deserving students

By: Alberto Mario Noretti, Tanyigbe