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| THE BECE RESULTS |
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| Posted on: 2007-Feb-10 GNA |
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IT is not the best of news that pupils in 15 schools in the Gomoa district of the Central Region scored zero per cent in the 2005 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Against the background of government increased input in education, for instance with the provision of infrastructure, introduction of capitation grant, the school feeding programme etc, it is unacceptable that a huge number of students are still unable to make any meaning out of their class work.
When the government introduced the capitation grant, GETFund and the school feeding programme, the idea was to create a congenial atmosphere for teaching and learning especially in the rural communities. That is why we are disappointed with the result from Gomoa.
We share the sentiments expressed by the Gomoa District Chief Executive, Ms Joyce Miltred Aidoo, that the teachers in these schools have not justified their wages.
The DCE expressed the sentiment at the commissioning of a three-classroom block for the Mumford Methodist Primary School recently.
We are of the view that something drastic ought to be done to turn things around. For instance, heads of the 15 schools and their teachers should own up for their failure and resolve to reverse the situation.
This is not to say that all the blame should be put on the teachers. Parents, opinion leaders and even the traditional heads should all be held responsible for the abysmal failure.
In a number of instances, parents do not bother about what happens to their children in the classroom. They are too busy eking a living that their children’s welfare is subordinated to their occupation.
In some rural communities, instead of encouraging their children to study, parents engage them in farming and other activities which eventually affect their academic performance..
In some societies too, children are left on their own instead of being supervised to do their class or home work.
When electricity was extended to the rural areas some years ago, the idea was to open up our town and villages. Our experience though is that with the arrival of power, children spend their time watching television and films instead of attending to their books.
It is the duty of traditional rulers, opinion leaders and others to ensure that children do not over-indulge themselves in such activities to the detriment of their academic progress.
We believe that the Gomoa students’ issue is not an isolated case. Not too long ago, there was a similar case involving schools at Kushia in the Assin North District of the Central Region.
Happily, the situation has been turned around through the efforts of community leaders in the town.
Indeed, there must be other areas in the country with similar problems and we commend the solution adopted by Kushia to those areas.
We also urge the District Education Directorate and the District Assembly to investigate the cause of the mass failures and help to rectify the situation.
We all owe it a duty to ensure that the various interventions and initiatives by government aimed at improving education, work to the benefit of the entire society.
The Gomoa experience is bad and should not be made to repeat itself anywhere.
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