‘Life of headteacher under Akufo-Addo terrible’

The Ranking member of the Education Committee in Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak has said the most terrible position one can take under President Akufo-Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s administration is headmaster at Public Basic School.

According to him, some Public Basic School headteachers will have to borrow to keep the school running under this government.

“To the extent that many of them are being chased by persons they’ve gone to either to seek service to keep the Public Basic Schools running or take money to buy supplies to keep Public Basic Schools running”, the Builsa South lawmaker to the media.

He went say that, “the most dreaded appointment as we speak is to be appointed as the head teacher of a Public Basic School.  This is how terrible the situation is. Furniture deficit, the last time I checked 1.5 million. Textbooks, we changed the curriculum and brought in a new one which took effect in September 2019 under the leadership of the current running mate of the NPP, Matthew Opoku Prempeh who introduced the new curriculum in 2019 as we speak only 65% of Ghanaians Public Basic Schools have access to the full complement of textbooks based on the new curriculum.”

The Bulisa South lawmaker further disclosed that President Akufo-Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s administration had decided to turn a little attention to the Public Basic Schools in the country.

“Ask NAT, NAGRAT, CCT, and any major player in the educational sector even EDUWATCH, ask my good friend Kofi Asare. As the Institute of Educational Studies Dr. Partey, because the government is so fixated on the middle of the structure and neglecting the base. Stagnating the apex, the focus is on Free Senior School but even there too there are challenges.

“This is a clarion call that I am making, the government and the finance minister must release the monies. Let Capitation Grants be paid the arrears are choking and killing the Basic school system,” Dr. Apaak stated.