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Schools asked to be firm on discipline
Tamale, Dec.15, GNA - Alhaji Aliu Mahama, the Vice President
has urged headmasters of Senior High Schools (SHS) in the
country to remain fair and firm in enforcing school
regulations.
He said reports indicated that some students flout school
rules and regulations with impunity, while at the same time
resenting teacher guidance and supervision, adding, "This
practice is repugnant and appropriate sanctions should be
enforced to sanitise the situation.”
Alhaji Mahama was addressing the 17th Speech and
Prize-Giving Day of the Tamale Senior High School in Tamale
on Saturday.
The occasion had as its theme: " Education- A tool for
eradicating poverty in Northern Ghana, Creating awareness in
the youth".
He noted that some parents and opinion leaders were also in
the habit of trying to interfere or influence the decision
of school authorities when disciplinary actions were taken
against their erring children.
"Teleguiding administrative decisions in schools to champion
sectional or partisan interest or ego has been our undoing
over the years and should therefore be avoided", he warned.
Alhaji Mahama said government, had over the years put in
place policies and programmes aimed at increasing enrolment
in schools, mentioning the capitation grant, the schools
feeding and the free bus service as examples.
He said, in spite of these incentives, school enrolment was
unsatisfactory in the northern regions.
He said the inability of the North to take advantage of
these opportunities to send their children to school would
continue to perpetuate and deepen the endemic poverty in the
North.
Alhaji Mahama therefore, urged traditional rulers; opinion
leaders, the Assemblies and other stakeholders to intensify
and sustain the drive to send children go to school and
remain in school.
He told them to ensure that cultural inhibitions and
practices that militate against the education of the
girl-child were not tolerated under any circumstances.
The Vice-President, who is an old student of the school
urged his colleagues to rededicate themselves to the
progress of their alma mater by revamping and keeping alive
the ideals of the school.
Mr. Bolina Saaka, Headmaster of the School said the school
had a population of 1,565 and out of the number 562 were
girls and 1,000 were boys, adding that, the school also had
a teaching staff of 76 and 81 supporting staff.
Mr. Saaka commended the government for the massive
infrastructural development it had undertaken in the school
and mentioned some of them as the rehabilitation of ten
staff bungalows and the construction of an administration
block.
Others include a girl's dormitory and the provision of
furniture, beds and an Assembly hall chairs.
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