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Dan Botwe pledges to pay for classes, lunch for Okere
candidates
Adukrom-Akuapem, (E/R) Nov 28, Ghanadot/GNA - The Member of
Parliament (MP) for Okere, Mr Daniel Kwaku Botwe is to pay four
Ghana Cedis a term for every third year pupil in
Junior High School in his constituency for teachers to organize
extra classes for them. This is to relieve parents of that
financial burden and to ensure that none of the schools in
the constituency scores zero per cent at next year's Basic
Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Additionally, the MP would pay for the organization of
residential vacation classes, in the December-January period,
for the third year pupils of 12 of the schools which are likely
to score zero per cent without some intervention.
Mr Botwe announced this at a meeting with teachers from the 28
JHS in his constituency and members of the Akuapem North
District Directorate of Education at Adukrom Akuapem
to brainstorm on how to prevent schools in the constituency from
scoring zero per cent and to raise the standard of education in
the area.
Four schools in the constituency scored zero per cent at the
2008 BECE but three of them were able to get some passes during
the 2009 examination. However, three other new
schools scored zero per cent, bringing the number of "zero
-schools" back to four.
Mr Botwe assured that he was prepared to finance the provision
of lunch for the students when necessary to ensure that the
pupils stayed on after schools hours to participate in the extra
classes.
He said as a long term measure, he had planned to motivate
eminent citizens from the
Constituency to adopt schools and visit them frequently to
encourage the students to learn hard.
The MP said he would establish an Education fund with the
support of people from the Constituency and their friends to
sponsor brilliant but needy children to continue their education
after the BECE.
The Akuapem North District Director of Education, Mr Alfred Kofi
Osei, said the results of the district at the BECE had been
improving gradually from 2005 but it dropped from a 60 per cent
score last year to 54 per cent this year.
He said analysis of the results indicated that many of the
schools whose performances were poor were in the Okere area.
During the forum, the teachers complained about lack of interest
in Education by the
pupils and their parents, adding that, in some cases pupils who
completed JHS with good grades did not get sponsors to help them
to the senior secondary school level.
Some teachers had often paid for the registration of the
brilliant BECE candidates whose parents claimed they did not
have money, they added.
GNA
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