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GES blame poor BECE results on Free SHS and teacher absenteeism

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Ghana Education Service (GES) Municipal Directorate for Wenchi Municipality in the Bono Region has blamed the poor BECE grades obtained by students in the area on Nana Addo’s free SHS, teacher’s absenteeism amongst others.

David Baffoe who is the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Wenchi Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service noted that the attitude of teachers and pupils not attending school regularly continues to affect the performance of pupils in the BECE.

He added that in 2017, the Municipality recorded 68% in the BECE, 67% in 2018 but in 2019 the municipality recorded as low as 25% in the exams.

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On why his office also blames the free SHS policy, he revealed that because the policy is pushing everyone to school, the students in the area are no more studying because they know whether they fail or not they would still attend SHS.

He, however, noted that the Free SHS policy is good for promoting education just that the pupils have taken advantage of it to not pull their weight.

To improve the performance, he noted that the Municipality was taking various measures such as punishing absentee teachers and checking truancy on the part of pupils.

“The teachers are the drivers of the curriculum. If things will go well, it depends on them. We are putting in place measures to ensure that the absenteeism of teachers is minimized. We had some teachers in some circuits absenting themselves up to 28 days out of the 70 days. Teachers must live up to expectation to be able to improve on the performance of the pupils”

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Source:Ghpage.com

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