Students Stopped From Registering Next Years BECE

By Kwabena Adu Koranteng

More than 50% of Final year pupil’s students in the Atebubu District of the Brong

Ahafo region have been repeated to form two by the authorities of the mission

schools in a bid to stop them from writing next years Basic Education Certificate

Examination.

These decision according to our sources were taken by the Heads of the

Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches to enable them prepare the

students adequately write and pass their examinations and to also end the annual

record of zero percentage points that the district record after BECE examinations

.

Meanwhile, parents of the pupils have expressed disgust about the move with the view

that it would put their children in great danger since most of them especially the

girls are at high risk of getting pregnant through frustration if their education is

delayed. The also think the boys might engage in drugs as a result of the

frustration they will go through as a result of the decision .

Some of them told this paper that they are currently in good positions to foot the

bills of their children should they have the opportunity to enroll in senior

secondary school next year and wouldn’t want anything to destruct their attention.

Meanwhile, the Atebubu the District Director of Education, Mr Suleiman Jakon has

regarded the decision by the authorities of the mission schools as unwarranted.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with the New Crusading Guide, he disclosed that

the principles guiding basic education does not allow pupils to be repeated without

the consent of their parents.

” pupils or students can only be repeated after their parents have agreed to it. The

authorities have no right to do this and we have started discussions with them to

try and find amicable solutions to the issue,” he stated

In a related Development, Teachers in the district who undertook Diploma Courses in

basic education under the distance learning programs with the University Of

Education two years ago have still not received their certificate even though some

of them have fully paid all monies required of them.