Parents refuse to provide the needs of pupils

Most parents in settler communities and deprived areas in Nkoranza South and Nkoranza North districts care less about the education of their children, most especially those in kindergarten and primary schools.
They have refused to provide the children with school uniforms, foot wear as well as teaching and other learning materials such as exercise books and pencils.
Teachers serving in these raised the concern at separate meetings of Parent/Teacher Associations at Koforidua and Asonkwaa Primary and Junior High schools.
“Some parents will sit at home and insult teachers in the presence of their children who may report that they have been punished by the teachers and this breeds indiscipline among the children”, the teachers said.
Mr. Samuel Obiri Yeboah and Mr. F.C. Osei, head teachers of Koforidua and Asonkwaa respectively said this at meetings attended by Mr. Kwabena Agyemang-Badu, District Director of Education.
Mr. Yeboah said the parents tended to support their children in private schools with the necessary basic needs and that had contributed to better academic performance of private schools.
Mr. Agyemang-Badu expressed concern about how some parents shunned public basic schools and urged parents to collaborate with and help teachers in public schools to identify and solve problems for a remarkable improvement in academic performance.
“There are more qualified and professional teachers in the public schools than in private schools and if parents offer support and provide all the necessary basic needs of their children they will not have any problems in their education”, he said.
The School Management Committees of Koforidua and Asonkwaa Primary and Junior High schools appealed to the District Education Directorate to include the schools in the national school feeding programme.