The President of the National Council of Parent Teacher Associations (PTA), Mr Alexander Yaw Danso, has said the current challenges facing the Computer School Placement exercise of junior high school leavers into Ghana’s senior high schools for the 2019 academic year, are the worst ever.
Mr Danso told Benjamin Akpako on Class FM Monday, 16 September 2019 that: “We started this computer placement for a long time but this year’s challenges are worse than previous years.”
Some aggrieved parents who thronged Mfantsipim Senior High School in the Central Region to seek admission for their wards were left angry, frustrated, disappointed and stranded as the school authorities turned them away with reason that their wards were not on the list of students granted admission to the school.
A local reporter, Sammy K, who was at the school to witness the chaos, told Kwabena Prah Jnr (The Don) on Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5 FM that the parents insist their wards were admitted to the school. Some of them said they had spent over GHS3,000 to purchase the necessary school items for their wards only to be told later by the management of the school that they students cannot be admitted to Mfnatsipem.They blamed the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service for the development.
“My child got admission to Mfantsipim but they are now telling me that I didn’t do the self-placement well. This is unthinkable but that is what they are telling us. It is unfortunate,” a parent complained. The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh had earlier said that 75 per cent of students had been placed to the various schools in the first round of postings.
He urged the prospective students who are facing challenges with the placement exercise to visit the nearest solution centre to get their concerns addressed.
Ten of such centres have been set up throughout the country to address the concerns of aggrieved parents and students.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Director-General in charge of Quality and Access at the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Kwabena Tandoh, has called on the affected candidates to exercise patience and go through the self-placement module system again to select a school of their choice. “Everybody can have an opportunity to go to school and all we would ask from our parents and students is to just be patient, go through the system and look for a school because you would find a school,” he told Accra-based Citi TV.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Npp government under akufo addo has destroyed education system in Ghana. This is the worse government ever. If you want a proper education for wards, just vote this unscrupulous government out. Period)))
@The f00I who posted under the name' free SHS for you'. must everything be politicised in this country?The fact is that this system of posting pupils is flawed and a better system must be found to deal with the situation.This is not a political issue.Any parent who does not like the free ShS system is at liberty to send their wards to the numerous private schools available. It's as simple as that.
Fawazi, maybe you are stingy and refused to buy thr items your ward needed, or you are not in Ghana. The person to tell the truth is you and you. Stingy and a wicked parent you are. i believe you don't cater for your house very well.
This is free SHS for you.
Some Ghanaians and their Journalists are becoming too noisy in Ghana. They wont even do their homework well but prefer rushing to the airwaves to spew rot. which school do some of these Journalist receive their training. How can a parent spend 3,000 gh cedis to attend free SHS? Then how free is it. My ward is in OWASS and i never spent anything near half of this figure. Lets learn to tell the truth and journalist too must learn to probe further.