Gonteng KKMA Primary school battling reptiles

By
Laudia Sawer

Gonteng (GAR), Sept. 18, GNA – Pupils and
teachers of Gonteng KKMA Primary School in the Greater Accra Region are
battling snakes and other reptiles in their compound.

The school, which was built by the Tema
Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) some years ago, is located in a lush greenery area
surrendered by a thick forest which is home to the reptiles.

Mr David Asumanti, Head teacher of the school,
has therefore appealed to organizations, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly
(KKMA) and individuals to help fumigate the school and its immediate
surroundings to keep them at bay.

Mr Asumanti said it was very worrying to have
the reptiles in the school as they posed a threat to teaching and learning.

Touching on other challenges in the school, he
told the Ghana News Agency that due to the limited classrooms, classes one and
two, three and four, and five and six were held in the three available
classrooms and handled by one teacher each.

He also said his office had been converted
into teachers’ accommodation to keep the four teachers of the school adding
that he travelled each day from Zenu near Ashaiman through Oyibi to Adamorobe
and walk over one and half hours to the school as no vehicle plied the area due
to the rocky and hilly nature of the place.

Potable water is an expensive commodity to the
pupils and teachers as they daily consume untreated discoloured stream water.

A toilet facility for the school, also had its
roof ripped off during a rainstorm early this year leaving it bare.

Pupils of the school, who were about 60 could
only continue their education after their primary school at Adamorobe or Aburi
in the Eastern Region as the Gonteng community was located between the two and
has no junior high school.

Mr Christopher Adjetey Adjei, an ICT and
Ghanaian language teacher and one of the long serving teachers in the school,
said getting food to eat or provisions to buy was very difficult as they had to
walk for long distances to the nearest towns before getting some.

Mr Adjei added that parents of the community
were poor farmers and therefore could not support the school financially to
provide for its needs.

According to him, some parents also did not
have cordial relationship with the teachers as they got offended whenever their
children were punish for doing wrong.

Mrs Rosina Adobor, Kpone-Katamanso Municipal
Education Director, revealed that her outfit had appealed to the Assembly to
help provide additional classrooms to house the kindergarten to class six as
well as to provide decent accommodation for teachers.

Mrs Adobor said due to the scattered nature of
the Gonteng community, the teachers often visited homes of children to encourage
their parents to enrol them in school.

GNA

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