{"id":352487,"date":"2017-09-11T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=352487"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:58:37","slug":"long-queues-as-parents-rush-to-shss-to-register-wards-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=352487","title":{"rendered":"Long queues as parents rush to SHSs to register wards [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First-year students of the various Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country have reported to their premises\u00a0to complete their registration process.<\/p>\n<p>However, the process has been fraught with a few challenges resulting in students and parents left standing in long<em>\u00a0<\/em>queues for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>With the students\u00a0supposed to report back in a couple of days, the\u00a0parents have thronged the schools to get their wards registered before classes commence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/d760c596-ebdb-409c-88ed-80304abf8109-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352530\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/d760c596-ebdb-409c-88ed-80304abf8109-1.jpg\" alt=\"d760c596-ebdb-409c-88ed-80304abf8109-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some schools in Accra, parents expressed their frustration with the slow registration process to <strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Marrie Franz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got here almost 7:00am and was told to sit in the Assembly Hall and wait. While we&#8217;ve been here, some parents have come to call their wards. We don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on but we think they&#8217;ve started. They told us they were using the numbers,&#8221; one parent said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we reported, we were told that we had to take numbers before we&#8217;ll be attended to. They just gave us the numbers and paid no more attention to us,&#8221; another parent said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bc0e0856-1a4a-4430-a52f-936d803be9d6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352528\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bc0e0856-1a4a-4430-a52f-936d803be9d6.jpg\" alt=\"bc0e0856-1a4a-4430-a52f-936d803be9d6\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We came here around 4:30am, thinking that we&#8217;d be attended to quickly so that we could go to work. We can&#8217;t spend the whole day here. We saw a few people going upstairs and we thought they were getting VIP and protocol treatment. They&#8217;ve told us they are using the numbers and I&#8217;ve got a number now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/d51e8dfd-13e8-4318-826d-3b165cfae78e-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352529\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/d51e8dfd-13e8-4318-826d-3b165cfae78e-1.jpg\" alt=\"d51e8dfd-13e8-4318-826d-3b165cfae78e\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the officials stated that, the process was going smoothly, but expressed concerns with the &#8220;impatience&#8221; of the parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to admit 500 people, we can&#8217;t do it at the same time,&#8221; she\u00a0said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region,\u00a0<strong>Citi News&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>Hafiz Tijani reported that, many parents had braved the rains to arrive early in order complete their wards&#8217; registration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5178e27b-7571-4441-b2a7-68f080c2d05c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352526\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5178e27b-7571-4441-b2a7-68f080c2d05c.jpg\" alt=\"5178e27b-7571-4441-b2a7-68f080c2d05c\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the process at the school had initially been tense, but the situation had calmed down with many parents able to register their children since then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bolgatanga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>Frederick Awuni reported that, a few schools in the Upper East Region had not yet put up a list of the students who had been placed there.<\/p>\n<p>Some parents also complained about the slow pace of the registration process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/922cefb1-510e-4234-b86e-5974365b4f80.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352525\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/922cefb1-510e-4234-b86e-5974365b4f80.jpg\" alt=\"922cefb1-510e-4234-b86e-5974365b4f80\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were here very early, some of us are from very faraway places. I&#8217;m from Kintampo and had to sleep in Tamale to get to the school early,&#8221; one parent said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the school assured them that their challenges would be addressed in time for them to complete the registration process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0583f71d-b872-420d-86b9-24d864b9a9f3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-352524\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0583f71d-b872-420d-86b9-24d864b9a9f3.jpg\" alt=\"0583f71d-b872-420d-86b9-24d864b9a9f3\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the reports from Accra, Kumasi and Bolgatanga below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Accra &#8211; 0:00 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Kumasi &#8211; 5:06<\/p>\n<p>Bolgatanga &#8211; 8:23<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/341897963&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-year students of the various Senior High Schools (SHSs) across the country have reported to their premises\u00a0to complete their registration process. However, the process has been fraught with a few challenges resulting in students and parents left standing in long\u00a0queues for extended periods of time. With the students\u00a0supposed to report back in a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[618,905,253,3,221,8743],"class_list":["post-352487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-accra","tag-bolgatanga","tag-free-shs","tag-ghana-news","tag-kumasi","tag-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}