No Aggregate Six In BECE In Asante Akim North In Two Years

For the past two years, no student from any of the public junior secondary schools in Asante-Akim North has scored aggregate six in the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE).

Mr George Frimpong, the District Chief Executive, who announced this, attributed this to the lackadaisical attitude of teachers in public schools towards their work. Speaking at the District's Best Teacher Award at Konongo, he said the lack of supervision contributed immensely to this unfortunate situation in public schools. He said because there was strict and effective supervision in private schools, their students performed better, adding that it was the absence of effective monitoring that accounted for the dismal performance of students of public schools in spite of the fact that they had better trained and experienced teachers.

Mr Frimpong said for instance that Miss Ann Amponsah-Poku, a recipient of the President's Award for this year was a product of Oxford International School at Konongo, a private school.

The DCE, therefore, charged the District Directorate of Education to ensure that head teachers reported recalcitrant teachers for disciplinary action to be taken against them. Mr Oppong Bediako-Poku, Asante Akim North Director of Education, said the institution of the best teacher award was to motivate teachers to give of their best and, therefore, charged teachers to take the interest of their pupils into consideration first before any other thing.