Dormaa Ahenkro (B/A), June 12, GNA - Mr Sammy Adu Saforo, Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Education, at the weekend, tasked governing councils of Senior High Schools in the region, to take keen interest in the academic performance of their schools.

The Deputy Regional Director, who is in charge of inspection and second cycle schools, made the call at the induction into office of a 13 member reconstituted board of governors of Dormaa Senior High School, at Dormaa Ahenkro.

The board has Barima Oppong Yaw Boabasa Ababio as chairman and will be in office for the next three academic years.

Mr Saforo noted that contemporary teaching and learning required that teachers are effectively monitored to ensure maximum academic attainment and their excellence acknowledged and appropriately rewarded to boost their morale.

He advised students to be disciplined and to avoid engaging in social vices such as early sex, drug abuse and copying foreign cultures blindly and rather help build solid foundations for themselves for future leadership.

The Deputy Coordinating Director commended the out-going board for their immense contributions to the welfare of the school during its tenure and urged them to place their wealth of experience over the past three years at the school's disposal.

Madam Margaret Pomaa Otchere, headmistress, thanked the out-going PTA for providing the school with infrastructure and appealed for more structures to provide accommodation for staff.

She identified pilfering, breaking of bounds, truancy, lateness, use of mobile phones among students and their lackadaisical attitude to studies, as challenges facing the school and called on the board to help curb them to promote academic work.

Barima Ababio gave assurance of 93a very successful" tenure, which would be built on discipline, unity and consensus building.

"We would like to see our great Dormaa Senior High School excelling as a great school in Ghana", he said.

Mr James Kusi, Dormaa Municipal Education Director, who presided, urged the new board to work with devotion and sacrifice.