From Isaac Akwetey-Okunor
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The Assistant Director of Education for the Upper Manya-Krobo District Mr. Phillip Odonkor Angmor, has attributed the frequent transfer of pupils from schools in the villages to those in the urban areas as one of the banes of quality education in the district.
According to him, pupils can also become scholars if they are retained in village schools and given the needed materials, coupled with good environments that would permit quality teaching and learning.
He is, therefore, urging all parents to retain their wards in the village schools, since, according to him, “Pupils in the village schools are also brilliant and can also be brilliant”.
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The Assistant Director of Education gave the suggestion in a keynote address during a large gathering of chiefs, parents, school pupils and their teachers at Aketebuor, a village near Otrokper in the Upper Manya-Krobo District last Sunday, when the Kloma Hengme Association embarked on its Rural Support Project in the village.
Speaking further, he said parents have the practice of always transferring their wards to schools in the urban areas upon realising that he/she is brilliant, and this must be stopped, since he himself is a product of a village school.
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Mr. Angmor also said that rushing school children into early marriage, lack of unity between parents and teachers, delays in the arrival of chalk and other stationery from Accra, low staff of teachers in schools, child labour, and schools under trees phenomenon are seriously militating against good equality education in the district.
To this end, he appealed to the government to endeavour to provide the necessary tools for quality teaching and learning across all schools, and not only those in the urban areas.
