Haruna Iddrisu 'blocks' attempt to sneak poor performing students into A-listed schools

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NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 4 months ago

Since Free SHS started almost 70% of students performance are very very poor and no doubt University lecturers keep saying their teachings becoming very difficult. Mahama should revamp the education system. Although just few ...
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Since Free SHS started almost 70% of students performance are very very poor and no doubt University lecturers keep saying their teachings becoming very difficult. Mahama should revamp the education system. Although just few months in government but our education system transforming gradually
Dr Mumbi Seraki 4 months ago

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide. ...

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide. ...
FRANKIE 4 months ago

The centralised Computer Placement System is simply not working. It's too stressful, frustrating and chaotic. It's best to revert to the old system of each school admitting their own students who choose and qualify for admis ...
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The centralised Computer Placement System is simply not working. It's too stressful, frustrating and chaotic. It's best to revert to the old system of each school admitting their own students who choose and qualify for admission into their school. How can a few people sit in Accra and determine who attends which school in every part of the country? Leave the admission process to the school heads as it was done in the past.
The Motherland 4 months ago

I feel sorry for the sickling styling himself as MUMBI SERAKI. It appears he has lost a few marbles upstairs.

I feel sorry for the sickling styling himself as MUMBI SERAKI. It appears he has lost a few marbles upstairs.
Karikakchar 4 months ago

The automatics placement was flawless when it was introduced under the visionary Osafo Marfo. The challenge started whe quota and all sorts of parameters were introduced. Let's be fair, students from the underprivileged areas ...
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The automatics placement was flawless when it was introduced under the visionary Osafo Marfo. The challenge started whe quota and all sorts of parameters were introduced. Let's be fair, students from the underprivileged areas also deserve to attend 'A' schools
Koti 4 months ago

Yes, the 30% quota for students in a catchment area of a school brought the system on its knees. How does the system selects students from a catchment area? Who needs a better school, a student who performed poorly or who did ...
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Yes, the 30% quota for students in a catchment area of a school brought the system on its knees. How does the system selects students from a catchment area? Who needs a better school, a student who performed poorly or who did well? A good wine needs no bush! Which plant needs to be watered, those with green leaves or those with dried leaves?
Maame 4 months ago

He's better than you. Jealousy!

He's better than you. Jealousy!
Cameraman 4 months ago

Rabid human he is. He is in the last stage of the infection.

Rabid human he is. He is in the last stage of the infection.
Accra 4 months ago

Sensible point, man.

Sensible point, man.
Pelicles. 4 months ago

Who was president in Ghana from 2012-2016, and can you come up with his educational records during those years?

Who was president in Ghana from 2012-2016, and can you come up with his educational records during those years?

Ernest 4 months ago

U are evil like mahama who destroyed all de good things of pro poor policies for Ghanaians

U are evil like mahama who destroyed all de good things of pro poor policies for Ghanaians
KB 4 months ago

I beg to disagree with you Minister. It is unfair on the part of the state to categorise schools as A,B,C,D,E using resources provided by the state. It implies that an E category school is near rubbish and will be so forever ...
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I beg to disagree with you Minister. It is unfair on the part of the state to categorise schools as A,B,C,D,E using resources provided by the state. It implies that an E category school is near rubbish and will be so forever because the Minister thinks that only weak students should go there. The Minister is actually saying that students from SITO shouldn't go to Achimota. But SITO are state schools patronised by the children of poor GHANAIANS who also contribute to the national cake. The latter fact was precisely the reason the Akuffo-Addo govt gave the sito kids quota to the A school and resulted in double tracking system. NDC prides itself as being a social democratic party and this position of the Minister for Education is very shameful, discriminatory and undemocratic. We must aim at providing quality COMMUNITY school and end this boarding school nonsense. Move all schools to the same standardised level and stop this everything for the rich.
The-ONE 4 months ago

Massa you got it all wrong, and so was the system under NPP. It doesn't matter if you go to sito or private school, all the students have to do is get a good grade. Someone can go to sito and get a better grade than someone w ...
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Massa you got it all wrong, and so was the system under NPP. It doesn't matter if you go to sito or private school, all the students have to do is get a good grade. Someone can go to sito and get a better grade than someone who goes to private school, guess what for his or her hard work he or she goes to a better SSS. I know of a guy who went to sito back then, gets 5A's and guess what had a very good school. Some children now a days don't want to study, play football, be on the internet especially Facebook and so forth. What do you expect such end results will be, at least they are able to be accepted in some schools. All they have to do is prove themselves in those schools and stop complaining. If some parents should push their kids to study or learn whether sito or private, these things will not happen, rather you're basing it on politics. You just don't understand.
Ntsiful 4 months ago

Great. It is very sad for the country to recognize this categorization but still want all the schools to write the same exam and expect the same level of performance from all the students and the schools.
Bravo!

Great. It is very sad for the country to recognize this categorization but still want all the schools to write the same exam and expect the same level of performance from all the students and the schools.
Bravo!
Alhaji Moro 4 months ago

Stop bragging Mr minister. People are paying through agents to the heads of those so called category A schools to get their children accepted.
This is the time headteacher make money so go back to bed and stop the empty nois ...
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Stop bragging Mr minister. People are paying through agents to the heads of those so called category A schools to get their children accepted.
This is the time headteacher make money so go back to bed and stop the empty noise.
obsver 4 months ago

He must check then BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY for himself ooooooooo.
The rot there!!!!!!! Hmmmmm.
Especially the complicity of the Headmaster and the IT Coordinator. Slots are being sold to the highest beader with pour performan ...
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He must check then BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY for himself ooooooooo.
The rot there!!!!!!! Hmmmmm.
Especially the complicity of the Headmaster and the IT Coordinator. Slots are being sold to the highest beader with pour performance results.
Plz, send your monitoring teams out for accurate feedback.
Vibes 4 months ago

Dear Obsver,

Respectfully, I believe your comment about BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY is both misleading and deeply unfair. Do you truly knew the school?
I went there with my son and I was warmly welcom
Pleased with the kind o ...
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Dear Obsver,

Respectfully, I believe your comment about BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY is both misleading and deeply unfair. Do you truly knew the school?
I went there with my son and I was warmly welcom
Pleased with the kind of treatment they gave me.
Stop spreading this false information. About the school
Everyone is entitled to information, yes but it's also important to remember that misinformation can be more dangerous than ignorance. Before spreading serious accusations, it’s only right to verify facts and understand the full context.

Let’s build, not break down. If you have genuine concerns, you are welcome to raise them through the appropriate channels not through public speculation and false claims.

Thank you.
Omaga 4 months ago

Please send this number 0530377281 hi through SMS. Thanks

Please send this number 0530377281 hi through SMS. Thanks
Neutralman 4 months ago

Why should the Minister want to dump non performing students on some unfortunate teachers who are teaching in category D or E schools and are expected to produce the same result as those teaching in the so called category A s ...
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Why should the Minister want to dump non performing students on some unfortunate teachers who are teaching in category D or E schools and are expected to produce the same result as those teaching in the so called category A schools. And who told the Minister that candidates with above aggregate 30 will not enter Grade A schools through the back door. This is Ghana where everything is possible for the rich and those in positions of power.
Coach 4 months ago

Exactly — that’s the deeper bite. If the Education Minister is blocking backdoor entries, the next question is:

Hon Minister - Why are we still treating Category A schools like golden gates? Shouldn’t equity mean mak ...
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Exactly — that’s the deeper bite. If the Education Minister is blocking backdoor entries, the next question is:

Hon Minister - Why are we still treating Category A schools like golden gates? Shouldn’t equity mean making every public SHS a place parents want to send their kids — not just a few?

Kwaw Esiako 4 months ago

Are the A-listed schools not better resourced and positioned to transform poor performing students? Are we not practising segregation?

Are the A-listed schools not better resourced and positioned to transform poor performing students? Are we not practising segregation?
The Soothsayer 4 months ago

To my knowledge, a patient with a difficult sickness is always refered to advance hospitals for better treatments why not thoae students who are not able to learn well not being put in the A _ listed schools where they have ...
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To my knowledge, a patient with a difficult sickness is always refered to advance hospitals for better treatments why not thoae students who are not able to learn well not being put in the A _ listed schools where they have all that can make their teaching and learning easier
Hmmm 4 months ago

Going to category A school does not make you any better if you are not ready to learn and transform yourself.

Going to category A school does not make you any better if you are not ready to learn and transform yourself.
Dungeon Master 4 months ago

Your analogy would only make sense in the West where common sense works. In Ghana, those who are very sick are declared dead and sent to the mortuary.

Your analogy would only make sense in the West where common sense works. In Ghana, those who are very sick are declared dead and sent to the mortuary.
The Soothsayer 4 months ago

Hmmm, Afiika

Hmmm, Afiika
Apo 4 months ago

I agree on this one.

I agree on this one.
Pierro 4 months ago

You categorized the schools yet same examinations and expectations from teachers in the D and E Schools. No fairness at all. Poor will continue to to be poorer.

You categorized the schools yet same examinations and expectations from teachers in the D and E Schools. No fairness at all. Poor will continue to to be poorer.
Justice 4 months ago

Mr Minister, it must rather interest you to know that the BECE is so compromised that the results do not reflect true performance of learners. Do you think all children from public schools low performers? They might end up ge ...
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Mr Minister, it must rather interest you to know that the BECE is so compromised that the results do not reflect true performance of learners. Do you think all children from public schools low performers? They might end up getting aggregate 25 but will outperform learners in who might score aggregate 6 from other schools especially the private ones. BECE is very problematic if the exams is the only bases for judging learners. I believe entrance exams must be introduced.
KingsKing 4 months ago

Hon. then listen and listen good. My daughter who had
English 1
Maths 1
Science 1
Social Std 3
RME 1
Computing 1
Creative Arts 2
Twi 3
Career tech 2.

And opted to read Home Econs with her first choice at Achimota ...
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Hon. then listen and listen good. My daughter who had
English 1
Maths 1
Science 1
Social Std 3
RME 1
Computing 1
Creative Arts 2
Twi 3
Career tech 2.

And opted to read Home Econs with her first choice at Achimota as denied. Not Science to think of but inlieu Home Econs.
She had aggregate 8 yet placed at her second choice. Meanwhile aggregate 20, 25, 30 and even 35 are getting grade A school.
Someone told me she sent over 200 list which is yet to be considered so she can not help.
The saddest part my girl did not attend private school instead public/government school and with such grades was denied. She told me vehemently that she'll not go to any other school apart from her first choice Achimota.
So sir if you don't know, people are paying ₵30,000.00,
₵20,000.00.....
The young girl has been crying since. Is this the reset Ghana we promised? Is this the mother Ghana of Dr. Nkrumah? Is this the way to bridge the gap between the poor and the needy as against the rich?
Is this the way to encouraged learning at the rural level? I'm ashamed as a Ghanaian.
Maame 4 months ago

Isn't it what the minister is trying to address? Sometimes we blame everything on the politicians, some of who are trying to help. The average Ghanaian is corrupt and will do everything corruptly. Leave the minister, and a ...
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Isn't it what the minister is trying to address? Sometimes we blame everything on the politicians, some of who are trying to help. The average Ghanaian is corrupt and will do everything corruptly. Leave the minister, and attack those making the money in secret.

TELL YOUR DAUGHTER NOT TO BE TROUBLED!! 4 months ago

Tell your daughter to take heart. A shining light no matter what cannot be dimmed. Some 30yrs ago, I was in her situation. Had the best of grades, but my own school rejected me for sixth form just because I didn't get a Grade ...
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Tell your daughter to take heart. A shining light no matter what cannot be dimmed. Some 30yrs ago, I was in her situation. Had the best of grades, but my own school rejected me for sixth form just because I didn't get a Grade A in Maths to read Economics. This was the best student in the Business Class. It would be understood if I was doing the sciences, but I wasn't. Simply because money was changing hands, and my poor helpless mother couldn't meet up with the payment. School was about to reopen, and all my friends were happily going back. My mum said, "Kofi, why don't you stay home and resit the maths again to make it next year?" I cried and responded, "Mummy, I wasn't lazy; I worked my butt off night and day, ghosting to make the top of my class. This isn't right and isn't fair." Just because I chose to read economics, and they demanded an A in Maths to read economics, I was penalized.

Out of the blue, a letter came from a school in the far corner of Brong Ahafo near the Ivorian Border. Nobody had ever heard of the school amongst my mates or my mum's friends. My mum pleaded with me not to go, but I was determined that circumstances and other people wouldn't determine my destiny. This 16-year-old was determined to take his destiny into his own hands. At 4:00 am, with only the admission letter, a map of Ghana, and my trunk, our neighbour, the taxi driver, Mr. XXXX, came to collect me for the STC Station at Kaneshie. With tears streaming down my mum's face, not knowing where her 16-year-old was going, all she could do was pray for me. The taxi driver consoled her, "Mummy, don't worry; Kofi will be fine. I've known him for 10 years; he's a determined young man."

At 1:00 pm the next day, after a changeover at Sunyani, I arrived at the town. I had to leave my trunk at an Akpeteshie Bar while I walked to the school. That was the beginning of a 2-year residence in the Bono region for my Sixth Form. It gave me the opportunity to travel, make new friends, and understand new cultures and languages. My 2-year sojourn in the region gave me an education outside of conventional education. It opened my eyes to a new way of life, the greenery, the forests, and the visits to neighbouring towns and across the border to Ivory Coast.

After 2 years with an award as the 2nd best A'Level Results, I was determined that you wouldn't catch me sitting in any office in Accra. After completing both 1st and 2nd Degrees in England, not even the attractions of London, nor Geneva where I speant sometime with the UN could quench my thirst for adventure. From the smallest island in the Caribbean, St. Kitts and Nevis, to the Kingdom of Samoa in the Pacific, across Africa, I've worked. Most of my friends who ended up in Accra, Cape Coast, and other top schools have asked how to get into my field. But it's not about the school one has attended; it's about your experiences and passion. And my experience in that small village school was the pathway to a bigger world and richer experiences.

Tell your daughter to take heart and not be troubled. The system cannot dim your light. In the darkest of places, you will glow and exceed your expectations. I wish her all the very best!"
Kwabena 4 months ago

Well said and congratulations.

Well said and congratulations.
Peter 4 months ago

I sympathise with you but next time state your facts and stop making statement like Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. Ghana does not belong to anybody. This nation exist before Nkrumah was bone. The fact that he change the name f ...
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I sympathise with you but next time state your facts and stop making statement like Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. Ghana does not belong to anybody. This nation exist before Nkrumah was bone. The fact that he change the name from gold coast to Ghana doesn't mean the country is him. Is absolutely nonsense to hear that.
Karen 4 months ago

Why did she choose her weakest area? I wonder if Achimota chose every student with Social Std 1 over her for Home Econs.

I would classify her as either shortsighted, lazy, or incapable of competing at the SHS-level simply ...
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Why did she choose her weakest area? I wonder if Achimota chose every student with Social Std 1 over her for Home Econs.

I would classify her as either shortsighted, lazy, or incapable of competing at the SHS-level simply because she did not choose math or science. (My 4 technical degrees are from top 7 American universities, including Harvard, where I was an interviewer before retiring.) I would assume she wanted to skate through a great school while her peers worked hard.

Think about it.
APK 4 months ago

To whom it may concern;

I'm writing to express my concern about the current system of placing high-performing students in well-endowed schools (Category A) while low-performing students are relegated to under-resourced sch ...
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To whom it may concern;

I'm writing to express my concern about the current system of placing high-performing students in well-endowed schools (Category A) while low-performing students are relegated to under-resourced schools. This approach perpetuates inequality and creates unrealistic expectations.

The current system:

- Reserves top schools for high-achieving students from affluent backgrounds
- Limits opportunities for students from disadvantaged schools, except for a few exceptionally brilliant ones
- Fails to recognize the efforts of teachers in under-resourced schools who work miracles with limited resources

Proposed Alternative:

- Place students with poor grades in Category A schools to provide them with better resources and opportunities
- Place high-achieving students in less endowed schools to foster diversity and challenge teachers to innovate

Benefits:

- Promotes fairness and equal opportunities
- Recognizes the value of teachers in under-resourced schools who make a significant impact despite challenges
- Encourages innovation and creativity in teaching methods

By rethinking this approach, we can create a more inclusive and equitable education system that values the potential of all students, regardless of their background or school type.
Nii 4 months ago

“What’s apparent in all this focus on grades is that there’s no real emphasis on learning—the true purpose of education.”

“What’s apparent in all this focus on grades is that there’s no real emphasis on learning—the true purpose of education.”
Nii 4 months ago

From my experience, our current paradigm based on grades creates an environment in which students fear the possibility of failure rather than focusing on the possibility of learning. Students are afraid to speak up, ask quest ...
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From my experience, our current paradigm based on grades creates an environment in which students fear the possibility of failure rather than focusing on the possibility of learning. Students are afraid to speak up, ask questions, and make mistakes for fear that it will impact their grade.
Joe Boy 4 months ago

If you claim that some schools are grade A schools, then placing a student with aggregate 35 is appropriate. Let the school transform him into a grade A student. Then we can say that school is doing well. You can't pack only ...
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If you claim that some schools are grade A schools, then placing a student with aggregate 35 is appropriate. Let the school transform him into a grade A student. Then we can say that school is doing well. You can't pack only the best students in a school and turn round to say they are doing well while condemning other schools for poor academic performance.
Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 4 months ago

AKUFFO ADDO IS THE PROBLEM. THE ONLY WORK HE DID IN 8 YEARS IS HOW TO STEAL

AKUFFO ADDO IS THE PROBLEM. THE ONLY WORK HE DID IN 8 YEARS IS HOW TO STEAL
Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 4 months ago

HOW MANY SCHOOLS DID AKUFFO ADDO BUILD IN 8 YEARS?

HOW MANY SCHOOLS DID AKUFFO ADDO BUILD IN 8 YEARS?
Yabi Yabi 4 months ago

If the practice of placing JHS students who pass their "common entrance examination" for SHS/Secondary school placement continues to depend on scores then we have a very serious problem with our education system period. We ha ...
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If the practice of placing JHS students who pass their "common entrance examination" for SHS/Secondary school placement continues to depend on scores then we have a very serious problem with our education system period. We have unknowingly created a system of separate and unequal dual education system for our pupils.

The process is unfair, discriminatory, unjust and infringe on the human rights of our youngsters who, by parents and birth, live in villages, small towns and small size cities across Ghana. The background and caliber of teachers placed at our elementary and middle schools and to some extent secondary/ SHS are not random nor "pick of the draw" or by some lottery system but by design, affluence, influence, nepotism, political connections and class.

The structure and system has relegated people from villages, small towns and districts to low probability of gaining entrance to presumed top class SHS in Ghana. The result of our discriminatory practices, going way back when, has resulted in people like NPP's chairman Wontume attending Prempeh College because he had better teachers at most of the primary and middle schools around Kumasi metropolitan area while someone who grew up in Ayeldo, a small town in the CR between Abura-Dunkwa and Assin Manso would have had to double up on his/her studies because of the caliber of teachers at the small town schools.

It is therefore cavalier of us, as a nation, to continue the practice of government sponsorship and participation in selecting who succeed or fail in Ghana's education and by extension placement of limitations on our youth for the "curse" of being born in a village or small town.
Naya 4 months ago

You really said all that i was thinking to say. Well done.

You really said all that i was thinking to say. Well done.
Peter 4 months ago

You, the minister would you send your children to private senior high school where is opportunities at public school? Please, give us a break

You, the minister would you send your children to private senior high school where is opportunities at public school? Please, give us a break
Fire, 4 months ago

This tells nothing but how incompetent Haruna Iddrisu is. He's not fit for that position. A superficial thinking person will read this and clap hands for this nonsense politics in Ghana. If there's corruption within a Ministr ...
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This tells nothing but how incompetent Haruna Iddrisu is. He's not fit for that position. A superficial thinking person will read this and clap hands for this nonsense politics in Ghana. If there's corruption within a Ministry under you, and you come out telling the people you're serving that, "hey, I've been able to catch/stop wrong doing in my ministry..." This tells how corrupt you are and have employed same people like you.
Kofi 4 months ago

You need to address the non residents classfied as day schoolers

You need to address the non residents classfied as day schoolers
Technical knockout 4 months ago

Ghanaians will now see their incompetence in broad daylight and realise how badly they wasted their mandate in voting this bunch of incompetent lot to power. Would Napo or Dr Yaw Adutwum sound this hollow? The previous govern ...
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Ghanaians will now see their incompetence in broad daylight and realise how badly they wasted their mandate in voting this bunch of incompetent lot to power. Would Napo or Dr Yaw Adutwum sound this hollow? The previous government invested in expansionary infrastructure and even built new STEM and Technical schools and absorbed all SHS graduates without complain. Now see the difference; Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum challenged the category A schools to prove their worth by admitting graduates with weak passes and turn them to excelling ones if they thought they were so good and better than others. In contrast, here a Minister throwing his hands in despair and sounding archaic by singing an outdated chorus. Hon Haruna Iddrisu is clueless and damned waste at the job. Apologise to the previous NPP administration.
Cuntiki 4 months ago

Technical knockout is deaf and dumb.
If we talk about educational infrastructure, is like you trying hard to compare oranges and apples. Npp government doesn’t come near ndc in educational infrastructure. You better revisi ...
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Technical knockout is deaf and dumb.
If we talk about educational infrastructure, is like you trying hard to compare oranges and apples. Npp government doesn’t come near ndc in educational infrastructure. You better revisit your notes.
Tt 4 months ago

Sit in your Village and be making that your gymifo statement. You are in the village, you dont travel so you can say that NDC is better THAN NPP when iys comes to Infrastructure. Villager.

Sit in your Village and be making that your gymifo statement. You are in the village, you dont travel so you can say that NDC is better THAN NPP when iys comes to Infrastructure. Villager.
CRUSADER 4 months ago

TALK TO YOUR BOYS! NDC IS CAPABLE OF EVERYTHING!NOW IF A KOREAN IS AN AMBASSADOR, A NIJA IS ALSO! WHAT AGAIN?

TALK TO YOUR BOYS! NDC IS CAPABLE OF EVERYTHING!NOW IF A KOREAN IS AN AMBASSADOR, A NIJA IS ALSO! WHAT AGAIN?
Ozymandias 4 months ago

But we remember that your propaganda machine made it clear that you will solve ALL problems within 90 days? What has gone wrong now?

But we remember that your propaganda machine made it clear that you will solve ALL problems within 90 days? What has gone wrong now?
Kwabena 4 months ago

Please send a delegation to find out why the Headmaster of Tsito SHS in the Ho West District allowed the school bus to be used to transport church members from Kpedze to a conference in Tamale. The bus was involved in an acci ...
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Please send a delegation to find out why the Headmaster of Tsito SHS in the Ho West District allowed the school bus to be used to transport church members from Kpedze to a conference in Tamale. The bus was involved in an accident. Are school busses for rental? Honestly, we are tired of the lawlessness and indiscipline in the country. If found guilty the Headmaster must be suspended and or dismissed for the misuse of State property. Please help to maintain law and order in the country.
Truth 4 months ago

Person calling himself "Waec Official" on Facebook should be investigated for promising to change scores and placements. Thank you.

Person calling himself "Waec Official" on Facebook should be investigated for promising to change scores and placements. Thank you.
Ghana Ba Kofi 4 months ago

Since the inception of the free shs, my st academic moral rights has gone missing and every know it.
* No repeatition
* No punishment
* No strict exams
* No dismissal
* Failing of a student
And all these were for p ...
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Since the inception of the free shs, my st academic moral rights has gone missing and every know it.
* No repeatition
* No punishment
* No strict exams
* No dismissal
* Failing of a student
And all these were for political gains.
So can't we do any right again in this country????
Those days, we were without AI, Chatgpt, Google and the kooomininis except calculators,yet we were learning well and making imparts but today every student is messing up cox promotion in school is automatic. If government will commence with the cut-off points then those at JHS will begin to be serious. If repeatition and sacking come into play again students will be serious but now what do we see, political games everywhere and we are losing focus on doing the best and right things for our education system.
Ghana Ba Kofi 4 months ago

Since the inception of the free shs, most academic moral rights have gone missing and everyone knows this.
* No repeatition
* No punishment
* No strict exams
* No dismissal
* Failing of a student
And all these were for ...
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Since the inception of the free shs, most academic moral rights have gone missing and everyone knows this.
* No repeatition
* No punishment
* No strict exams
* No dismissal
* Failing of a student
And all these were for political gains.
So can't we do any right again in this country????
Those days, we were without AI, Chatgpt, Google and the kooomininis except calculators,yet we were learning well and making imparts but today every student is messing up cox promotion in school is automatic. If government will commence with the cut-off points then those at JHS will begin to be serious. If repeatition and sacking come into play again students will be serious but now what do we see, political games everywhere and we are losing focus on doing the best and right things for our education system.
Pete Dwr 4 months ago

For once, I have reasons to disagree with my admired politicians, Honourable Haruna

It is good he's fighting legalities, but his reasons for the action is not not.

Why do you want to put the brilliant students in one s ...
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For once, I have reasons to disagree with my admired politicians, Honourable Haruna

It is good he's fighting legalities, but his reasons for the action is not not.

Why do you want to put the brilliant students in one school and the poor performing students in another school?

Let every school have a taste of teaching brilliant and poor performing students.

If the School is grade A, they should be capable of transforming poor performing students into brilliant ones.
After all education is about transformation.
Asare 4 months ago

Placing underperforming child in category A school would be suicidal since majority of those students are highly intelligent. The underperforming child might not be able to cope with the new reality. And the teachers in those ...
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Placing underperforming child in category A school would be suicidal since majority of those students are highly intelligent. The underperforming child might not be able to cope with the new reality. And the teachers in those schools too may not take time for those few students to get the understanding. So things would be worse for those students with low grades in the long run. They wouldn't feel happy and comfortable in class.

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