News:
October 3, 2018
Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi-North and Ranking on Education, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe has urged government to consider including private schools in the ongoing free Senior High School policy.
According to the Ranking member on Education, government did not listen to the Minorities earlier advice, “we would not have been experiencing this whole double trucking system”.
“Why don’t you engage the private schools look at the facility they have whatever is being spent on every student in the public schools give them the same amount of money and sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and monitor their performance”.
He noted in an interview that the response he got was that government does not provide free SHS to private institutions, this year you would see that the private schools are getting enough students, because a lot of parents are not happy with the double truck system.
Again, the semester system is keeping their children at home before going to school, those who can afford are sending their children to private schools and I mean good private schools.
“You see if you are thinking of quantity and not quality that is the result we would get, because we want everybody to go to school, we just want the numbers we are no preparing the necessary environment for them to learn” , he lamented.
Mr. Peter Nortsu-Kotoe pointed out that, the committee on education would soon be making some rounds to observe the double trucking system.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com