Social vices affecting academic work
Kumasi, July 28, Ghanadot/GNA –
Mr. Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of
Education, has expressed worry that unfavourable social
conditions were undermining academic work in schools in the
country.
He said: “There is moral degeneration, drug abuse, cyber
crime, popularly called “Sakawa” and occultism among the
youth.”
Mr. Onyinah was speaking at the Regional Basic Schools
festival of arts, held on the theme: “Culture, an Epitome of
our Moral Values”, at the Centre for National Culture in
Kumasi.
School children from 20 out of 21 schools in the
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Education Directorates,
took part in choral music, sight singing, drama, poetry
recital, drum language, dance choreography and verbal arts.
Mr. Onyinah advised school children to take their studies
seriously to enable them to acquire skills and knowledge
required for national development.
Mr. Kofi Opoku Agyeman, Ashanti Regional Co-ordinator of
Culture at the Ghana Education Service (GES), called for the
re-introduction of cultural studies in basic schools to help
unearth artistic talents of the youth.
The Kumasi Metropolitan Education Directorate emerged the
overall champions of the competition, which was organised to
select the best performers to represent the region at the
national festival to be held. in Wa, Upper West Region, in
September this year.
GNA
