The Ghana Education Service (GES) has apologized for the late communication in reopening of schools for SHS 3 students.
The Service says it has rescheduled the reopening for Senior High School (SHS) Form 3 students to May 5.
However, communication reached parents and students when they had already reached their respective schools.
This made some of the students stranded as some who spoke to the media complained of not having money to go back home.
Speaking to the complaints and agitations from both parents and students, the Director-General, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said he understands the frustration because he wouldn't have been happy if it were him.
"We're truly sorry; it's a very frustrating situation and so we understand the parents," he told Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo'.
Meanwhile, he has explained what led to the change in date.
Listen to him in the video below
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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GES Today It appears GES is dealing directly with parents instead of naturally engaging the heads of schools and communicating to parents through them. It appears heads of schools are being side-lined in the management of schools in our country. This is a serious education disorder which should be rectified. Gradually, the social order in our system is being eroded. At basic level, school heads don't have control over teachers in their schools. No wonder results in government schools, despite the qualified trained teachers they have, generally turn out poor. Now SHS heads have been robbed of their right to pick students for admission through the computerised system. What haven't we heard of the huge amounts people have to pay to get their children into some schools? So we see someone with aggregate 24 getting a so-called first class school whereas someone with aggregate 08 or 10 get placed in a school which was not desired. Another issue, a school head, by the rules of the school, returns someone with hair that is beyond what is prescribed is ordered by GES to take them back. What is GES doing? Then GES should as well sack all heads and manage the schools eeeh. Now GES snubs school heads and talks directly to parents about reopening and vacation dates. What communication system exists in that organisation? Isn’t there any protocol for sending out information? Please oo Ghana is a blessed country. Let us put things right. GES, engage school heads and let them be worth their positions and duties. Respect them. Don't use WhatsApp and other mass media platforms to communicate to parents. Do proper consultations with the school heads, plan well ahead of time because you have the figures beforehand. Preserve the system that educated you at the least, if you can't improve it!!!
@Esi please what has failing to communicate reopening day of schools to parents got to do with the Cathederal? Be careful with the way your critics on the cathederal ok. Humans make mistakes and apology is the finest thing they can do. What else?
GES, what are you sorry about after the harm had been cuased. Its a share irrespeonsibility on the part of the GES of playing a double standard game and messing up with the education of the Ghanaian youth. Its a total Mess and political immaturity from the GES. The Education Minister has no politicla commitment and will for the future of the Ghanaian youth. The Free SHS of the Akufo Addo administration is in total mess and has turned upside down and no amout of money and political philosophy can rescue it. STOP raising money for the non priority Cathedral in Ghana and invest that money to the old system of Ghanas education: Primary school, Middle school and Secondary to the Tertiary Level.