Students sent home for boycotting examination

The Lassia Tuole Secondary School in the Wa District, was on Sunday closed down indefinitely and all the 240 students sent home for boycotting their terminal examination in religious and moral studies.

Mr Gilbert Kunyam, District Director of Education, sought the assistance of the police to oversee a peaceful departure of the students from the compound, following mounting tension between them and the school authorities.

The students claimed that they did not have enough tuition in the subject during the term and therefore decided to boycott the paper.

"For sometime now, the school has had no permanent tutors in religious and moral studies and students have to make do with unqualified teachers," a student said.

No amount of persuasion by the headmaster, Mr A. A. Kpari, Mr Kunyam, District Director of Education and Mrs Dominica Kumlie, Chairman of the Board of Governors could make the students change their mind.