The authorities in charge of our educational system needs to be on their toes if we want our educational standards not to fall further behind. We are already facing numerous challenges and we must work hard to improve the system and make it better. But some of our policy makers are trying to take decisions that will only destroy our education in the long term. There is brewing tension among private basic schools as a result of some statements made by the director general of the Ghana Education Service.
During an interview on Asempa FM, the director general Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa said “In our various meetings, I have suggested 80 or 90 percent placement of Category A schools should be reserved for students from public schools and those from private schools be made to write entrance exams”. This statement from the director is uncalled for and he must be made to apologise. What sort of discrimination is that? Are the students of private schools not Ghanaians? Why should they write entrance exams? Is it their fault that they are better than their colleagues from public schools?
GES must sit up and do the needful. They should provide all the necessary infrastructure and learning materials to the public schools. Look at the numerous employment opportunities they have provided for teachers. Look at the amount of investments they have made in their school and students. GES should not use them as scapegoats for their own failings. Private basic schools will continue to be better than public schools if those in charge of our educational system don’t do the needful.
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