Indiscipline students at Kumawu to be sanctioned

Kumawu, (Ash), Aug. 10, GNA - The Kumawu Traditional Council, in collaboration with the Sekyere East District Assembly will soon enact a bye-law to check indiscipline in senior secondary schools in the Kumawu area.

The two bodies will therefore set up a task force that will enforce the bye-law and recommend appropriate sanctions to be meted out to offending students, Barima Asumadu Sakyi, Paramount Chief of the Kumawu Traditional Area, announced this on Saturday.

Inaugurating a computer project and a teacher's bungalow for the Tweneboa Kodua Secondary School at Kumawu, he said the decision to enact the bye-law and establish the task force was arrived at during a series of meetings held between the two bodies on how to curb indiscipline among students, especially dodging classes.

The 20 computers donated by the Old Students Association cost 100 million cedis, while the bungalow was built by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the school at the cost of 92 million cedis. Barima Asumadu Sakyi said there had been growing concern in recent times about the attitude of some students in the area, who skipped classes and went to watch videos or on drinking sprees.

This, he noted, had contributed to the low performance of the students in the district and that this had necessitated the measures being adopted to curb this phenomenon.

Mr Isaiah Opoku Boateng, District Chief Executive for Sekyere East, called on parents not to shirk their responsibilities and leave only teachers to shoulder since education was a shared responsibility. Mr J.K. Ahovey, Headmaster of the school, commended the Old Students Association and the PTA for the gesture and entreated them not to relent in their efforts at raising the academic standard of the school.