Kings and Queens Prep school finds solution to accusations

The authorities of Kings and Queens Preparatory School at Amanase in the Eastern Region, has said it is ready to relocate to a new site, to help end series of accusations leveled against it by the community.

“The school has acquired a parcel of land and its being developed for classrooms, and that, by the 2014/15 school year, the primary department would have moved to the site”

“The nursery department would also follow later”, Madam Dinah Tome, Proprietress of the school disclosed.

Madam Tome was reacting to allegations by some residents that the school was operating in an unhealthy environment, among other things.

A nursing mother, who lives around the school and pleaded anonymity, said the school was sited near to a refuse dump and also on a waterlogged land. She said people defecate at the dump site, which pollutes the environment, causing an environmental hazard.

According to her, members of the community had with met the proprietress on the issue and also several reports made to opinion leaders here, but to no avail.

“It is feared these little children can contract communicable diseases”, she said, and wondered why the Ghana Education Service (GES) or the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) does not monitor the schools under them to ensure their operations are in a congenial atmosphere.

The Proprietress told newsmen at the school premises at Amanase in the Suhum Municipality that the building has a site plan and an indenture covering it, in conformity with the new GES guidelines, and that when it was established on 25th September, 2006 the refuse had not extended that far.

She said the school has toilets and urinals for the school children and the staff, adding that, “we also have safe drinking water, a first aid facility, litter bins and a watchman, which are some of the requirements for the establishment of a private school.