DCE decries poor results of BECE in district

Adwuman (Ash), Sept. 2, GNA - Mr Bright Addai-Mununkum, Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District Chief Executive, has decried the poor results of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the District.

Even though, he did not give any statistics, he said for three consecutive years, the BECE results in the District had not been encouraging.

Mr Addai-Mununkum said the District Assembly would, therefore, do everything possible to change this trend for the better. These were contained in a speech read on his behalf at the fund-raising harvest at Adwuman in aid of the Catholic Primary and Junior Secondary School on Sunday.

The DCE cautioned parents not to turn their children into breadwinners but should send them to school to acquire knowledge in their formative years.

He suggested to the assembly to enact a byelaw that would make it an offence for a parent to refuse to send his child to school and instead engage him in child labour.

Mr Osei Boateng, Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the schools, called on the people to continue to contribute towards raising the standard of education in the town. The fund-raising yielded 2.1 million cedis.