Pupils desert school Besebuom

(E/R), May 28, GNA - Pupils of Besebuom Local Authority Primary School in the Fanteakwa District have stopped going to school citing the non-performance of their teachers as their reason. All the 60 pupils have refused to go to school, because, according to them, their teachers do not attend school regularly and on the few occasions that they do they spend most of the time conversing and thereby not teaching.

The chiefs and people of the town have, therefore, called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to transfer the teachers. Mr Ofori Attah, Unit Committee Chairman of the town, disclosed this to the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister and Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo when he visited the town on Friday.

Mr Attah said some of the pupils have enrolled at schools, as far as three kilometres away from their home. Formal complaint had been lodged with the Fanteakwa District Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT).

Mr Ofosu-Ampofo promised to take the issue up with the authorities and asked those pupils, who are not attending any other school after abandoning the old one, to return while efforts are made to rejuvenate it.