Akyem Kwabeng, March 04, GNA- Mr Victor Smith, Outgoing Eastern Regional Minister, has challenged both teachers and parents to work together as partners in educating the child.
He said the two must bring up the child in a way they should go, so that they will not depart from the good principles and moral upbringing needed to cope with challenges of life.
‘We live in very challenging times where majority of parents especially those in rural and urban poor communities have lost their grip on their children due to poverty, lack of parental guidance and neglect.’
Mr Smith was speaking at the inauguration of a GH¢ 458,000.00, 12 room girl’s dormitory block for the Kwabeng Anglican Senior High Technical School in the Atiwa District on Friday.
He noted that efforts being made to provide quality education for children would be in vain, if children were not given the right moral training and discipline in their formative years.
Mr Smith said the manifestation of indiscipline had been witnessed in some Junior High Schools, Senior High Schools and tertiary institutions.
He said school authorities were also losing control over pupils and students, as well as the teaching staff, leading to some unacceptable behaviours, such as sexual harassment and other vices in schools.
Mr Smith also expressed worry about the spate of examination malpractices in schools these days, saying, ‘It is very sad to note that examination malpractices had become lucrative business to some people these days’.
He cautioned schools indulging in such malpractices to put a stop to it since many employees got jobs that they were not suited for because the qualification they claimed to have were not genuinely acquired.
Mr Smith also advised students to take their studies serious, since it was the only way to show appreciation to the government’s efforts in providing quality education in all parts of the country.
Mrs Benedicta Foli, Headmistress of the school, expressed her gratitude to the government for the gesture and also appealed to it to provide more infrastructures in the school.
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