Students double lives exposed

Cape Coast, March 19, GNA - Mr. Frank Agyekum, Deputy Minister of Information and National Orientation, has expressed concern that some students led "double lives" - one at school and a different one at home. He said some students led "holy lives in the eyes of their parents, and despicable lives in school", engaging in anti-social and destructive acts like prostitution, drug abuse and robbery, "that beat the imagination of their parents".

Mr. Agyekum, who spoke to the GNA in an interview in Cape Coast, said parents' and guardians' lack of interest in the school life of their children and wards was depriving them of the benefit of having good role models to emulate.

He said some of the students go to the extent of using dubious means to get permission to go home, adding, and "God only knows what they do when they go outside the walls of their schools". Mr. Agyekum appealed to parents and guardians to work hand in hand with school authorities in the upbringing of their children, and desist from paying little attention to their progress as well as pay impromptu visits to their schools in order to be abreast with their activities.