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Two hundred and fifty students of the Labone Senior High School (SHS) have been sacked for their abysmal performance in the end-of-year examination in July, this year.<\/p>\n

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The students, who had an average of four failures in eight subjects, were sent packing when the first term of the 2014\/2015 academic year began.<\/p>\n

Out of the number sacked, 155 of them were second-year students who were supposed to go to Form Three, while 95 were first-year students entering their second year.<\/p>\n

Also, 171 students who had an average of three failures in the examination have been asked to repeat their forms.<\/p>\n

About 800 Form Two students of the school were supposed to enter Form Three, while the number of first years who were expected to enter second year was 1,000.<\/p>\n

School policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The action, according to the Headmistress of the school, Mrs Mary Amankwah, was in line with the school\u2019s policy agreed upon by both the students and their parents at the time of their admission.<\/p>\n

Mrs Amankwah told the Daily Graphic in an interview that part of the prospectus of the school clearly stated that if a student had three failures in an end-of-term examination, he or she would be sacked from the school.<\/p>\n

That portion of the agreement, she said, was signed by both parents and students.<\/p>\n

Parents unconcerned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs Amankwah said the situation might have been different if the parents whose children were affected had honoured an invitation by the school to find a way out of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe invited 300 parents to a meeting as a way of finding measures to deal with the situation but, surprisingly, only 36 of them turned up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She expressed dismay at the attitude of those parents who failed to honour the invitation, saying, \u201cYou just can\u2019t dump your children in school and not be concerned about their welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The affected parents, she said, seemed not to care about the future of their children, adding, \u201cThey have all the time and resources in the world to attend big funerals and weddings but when it comes to the education of their children, they don\u2019t seem to care.\u201d<\/p>\n

More girls affected<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was regretable, she said, that majority of the students who had been sacked were girls in the day system.<\/p>\n

She observed that a good number of those girls were made to do extra chores at home, thereby denying them the opportunity to do independent studies.<\/p>\n

In justifying the decision to sack them, Mrs Amankwah said, the management of the school had two options \u2014 whether to allow the students to go through, write their final examinations and score failures or do the right thing by sending a clear signal to parents that the school would not renege on its role of ensuring that quality human resource was produced for the development of the country.<\/p>\n

She said if the school allowed the first option, \u201cthen we would have consented to their failure\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the role of the teachers of the school in raising standards, Mrs Amankwah said she had always remained strict on teachers\u2019 lesson notes and attendance, adding that she would step up her oversight role to ensure total compliance.<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), she said, the school scored 68 per cent passes, adding, \u201cWe could have done better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parents begging<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the\u00a0Daily Graphic<\/strong>\u00a0visited the school yesterday, a good number of distraught-looking parents had come to the school to plead with the authorities to accept their children back.<\/p>\n

Mrs Amankwah said as a result of the desire of the school management to ensure a better future for the affected students, it would meet with the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) to fashion a way out of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that both the affected students and their parents have been traumatised by the decision, but we had to do this to ensure sanity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Views of an affected parent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Frederick Armah, a teacher, who is an affected parent, told the Daily Graphic that what had happened was a wake-up call to all parents, especially those whose children were day students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not saying technology is not good, but these children come home and instead of studying, all you see them do is \u2018Facebooking\u2019 and \u2018Whatsapping\u2019 on phone,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n

He stressed the need for parents to take absolute interest in what their children did when they returned from school and also coach them very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are struggling so much to find money to pay their fees and so we must ensure that our investment pays off,\u201d Mr Armah said.<\/p>\n

Unable to pack home<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the affected students, a male boarder, told the Daily Graphic that even though he had packed out of the school, he had not been able to return home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term has just begun and so if I pack home now, what will people say and what will I tell them?\u201d he asked, with tears in his eyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Graphic Online\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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