Equality in Ghana’s educational system: - a reality or a myth?

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• ghanaman 11 years ago

  I am ghanaman, and I endorse this message. The issues it raises are relevant and if the measures advocated are adopted, the nation's educational system could see significant benefits.

  I am ghanaman, and I endorse this message. The issues it raises are relevant and if the measures advocated are adopted, the nation's educational system could see significant benefits.

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• Dave Davis 11 years ago

  How about the fact that a young widow I know has to keep her 2 children out of school for over 2 years because she can no longer afford to send them to the free public schools. You see, at one time she had a great little busi ...
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  How about the fact that a young widow I know has to keep her 2 children out of school for over 2 years because she can no longer afford to send them to the free public schools. You see, at one time she had a great little business a couple years ago when she found out her mother was kidnapped and the kidnappers were demanding a ransom. The only way she could pay the kidnappers even part of the ransom demanded was to close down her business, put 7 workers out of a job so she could pay the ransom. You're disgusting police force did nothing more than encouraged her to pay the ransom, and have made no efforts whatsoever to catch the 5 kidnappers. Her kids were going to a private school at the time, but when she could no longer pay the tuition fees they had to drop out.
  
  So for over 2 years she has wanted to get her very bright children who are doing very well at school into the public school system. 1st off, public school is neither free nor compulsory in fact. To transfer them from the private school system to the public school system would cost over 600 just to write the entrance exams, and that's not even counting the 2 uniforms that each one of these children would need to go to school––school uniforms aren't idiotic idea, and even more so in a poor country. So now these promising students or even presented in contests on TV can no longer go to school to expand their minds and other possibilities because their mother is now working in a tomato processing plant 16 hours a day, and the managers there refused to pay her over time for her extra hours, just about food on the table for 5 other people she has taken responsibility for, one of whom is an ex-employee.
  
  Not only is the public education system in Ghana a joke, but when the workers at the plant reported the infractions made by the management to the appropriate government authorities, all they did was say everything was okay and that their employer was doing nothing wrong. Obviously these criminals are on the take… unfortunately, nothing new there.
  
  So what, if anything, does the education department or anyone plan to do about this?

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