By Bernice Bessey
The Manpehia Primary/Junior High Schools in the Ga South Municipality will benefit from a six-unit classroom block which will enable the kindergarten class to have a permanent classroom.
In addition, the school will receive 70 of the 7,000 mono desks the assembly is set to distribute to various schools in its area.
A visit to the school last week debunked earlier reports that it lacks many facilities, including desks. According to a teacher, Mr. Isaac Ayeh Gyan, the school needs extra classrooms to accommodate the kindergarten and junior high school pupils, and extra desks to replace the broken down ones, which is not peculiar to their school alone.
He accepted that the school, like many others, does not have all the needed facilities, adding that the situation is not as dire as many people were made to erroneously believe.
Currently, the second and third year JSS pupils share a classroom, while those in the first year study under a shed, just like the kindergarten pupils, creating an atmosphere not conducive for academic work.
However, construction works commenced by the Municipal Assembly are ongoing to provide the needed infrastructure, for which Mr. Gyan commended the contractor for the zeal with which he started the work, and urged the assembly to give him all the necessary support to complete the work on schedule.
Speaking to the media, the Public Relations Officer of the assembly, Mr. Elliot Adom, said the assembly is aware of the problems facing the school, like others located in the hinterland of the Municipality, and has included them in the list of beneficiary schools to receive the new mono desks.
He explained that in times past, pupils were using dual desks, but it has been proved that it has not been psychologically helpful when they are writing the Basic School Education Certificate Examinations, where they are obliged to use mono desks.
Its introduction, therefore, forms part of preparing the pupils for examinations.
According to the acting Headmaster, Seth Aryee, the biggest problem they face, as teachers, is the high rate of absenteeism, especially on market days, as parents prefer their wards helping them sell cassava dough in the nearby Bawjiase market than be in school.
He revealed that the school registered six pupils for this year’s BECE, but commended the school’s Parents and Teachers Association for financial support in taking care of some basic emergency needs such as fitting loosened doors and replacing leaking roofs among others.
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