The National Democratic Congress (NDC) member of Parliament for North Tongu, Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa, has posed an intriguing question to the general public for which he sort the candid opinion of all well-meaning Ghanaians for the betterment of mother Ghana.
According to Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa, previous governments before Nana Akufo-Addo took over, absorbed 80% of the total school fees. These include the Tuition (salaries of teachers), Payment of Administrative and Non-Teaching Staff, Infrastructure (Construction of Schools, Classrooms, Dormitories, Libraries etc.), Science Labs, Computer Labs Utilities
Other essentials taken care off by previous governments were Furniture, Lodging Textbooks/Teaching and Learning Materials, Establishment Supplies, Scholarships (Cocobod/Scholarship Secretariat etc.), Boarding Fees Subsidy for Northern students/SHS Subsidies.
Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa emphasized that the parents on the other hand took care of Uniforms, Feeding, School Cloth/PE kits/House Dress, Medicals, PTA Levies, Admission Fees, Examination Fees and SRC/Entertainment/Sports/Culture Dues.
He added that the an average of 20% cost was borne by parents/guardians during the pre-SHS era whiles the rest 80% of the cost of secondary education by catered for by the Government.
Okudzeto therefore want the Ghanaian to be just whether “considering the current abysmal state of SHS education, are we paying too much of a price for given up 20%?”
price we are paying for adding the 20% to government is higher than the parents paying the 20%, what should we do as a nation.
Should governments now and the future continue to cater for the total cost and keep producing less quality or can parents absorb some cost so that quality can also be achieved?
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