Children, youth must submit to authority

Accra, Sept 19, GNA - Mr Kwadwo Awuku Lokko, a retired staff of Unilever Ghana Limited, has advised children and the youth to be submissive to their parents as they strive to make investments to secure their future. They should also obey their teachers to encourage them to give of their best for them to graduate with flying colours. Mr Awuku Lokko gave the advice when he chaired the Founders' Day celebration and Graduation Durbar of the RIIS Memorial School at Dansoman in Accra, at the weekend. The event, under the theme: "Today's Youth at the Threshold of a Most Challenging Future," climaxed a four month-long Silver Jubilee celebration of the basic institution, at Dansoman. Sixty pupils, comprising 32 girls and 28 boys, the school's candidates for the 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) graduated at the ceremony, attended by parents, old pupils, and friends of the school.

Accra, Sept 19, GNA - Mr Kwadwo Awuku Lokko, a retired staff of Unilever Ghana Limited, has advised children and the youth to be submissive to their parents as they strive to make investments to secure their future. They should also obey their teachers to encourage them to give of their best for them to graduate with flying colours. Mr Awuku Lokko gave the advice when he chaired the Founders' Day celebration and Graduation Durbar of the RIIS Memorial School at Dansoman in Accra, at the weekend. The event, under the theme: "Today's Youth at the Threshold of a Most Challenging Future," climaxed a four month-long Silver Jubilee celebration of the basic institution, at Dansoman. Sixty pupils, comprising 32 girls and 28 boys, the school's candidates for the 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) graduated at the ceremony, attended by parents, old pupils, and friends of the school. Mr Awuku Lokko advised parents to sacrifice any other interests and use even their meagre resources to sponsor the education of their children. He said they should not cite the prevailing economic conditions, which is quite harsh, as a reason against funding their children's education. He underscored the importance of education to the development of an individual, as well as the entire nation, and urged parents not to renege on such a responsibility to their children. Mr Kwesi Ofei Ofosu-Apea, Director of RIIS Memorial School, said with its initial enrolment of 80 pupils in 1985, the school's population currently stands at 700. "They are receiving an excellent education in an adequately resourced environment," he said. "We started with six classrooms, but we now boast of a two-storey building, accommodating 21 classrooms, a staff common room, a well furnished computer laboratory, a well stocked library and adequate number of teachers. He said the school had since 1994, when its first batch took the BECE, recorded distinction in the exams, resulting in a large chunk of its products working in the fields of Medicine, Arts, Communications and others, towards the development of the country. He said the school would continue to uphold its core value, which was "to imbibe moral and religious values, combined with the broader scope of academic exposure, in its pupils to enable them to become role models in all spheres of life. 19 Sept. 10