Students Share School with Livestock

The falling standards of education have been attributed to many things including poor tutelage but what students of the Salvation Army Junior High School in the Obuasi Municipality is far worse that poor tutelage.

The lack of a wall around the Salvation Army Junior High School in the Obuasi Municipality is having a toll on effective teaching and learning as the pupils have to strain their ears to hear their teacher’s voices which are always drowned by the bleating of sheep, goats and the mooing of cattle who graze on the school’s compound.

School authorities therefore want the school walled as a matter of urgency.

Aside the number of cattle and domestic animals that graze on the school’s compound because the school is not walled, the school is also a dumping grounds as residents who leave close to the school throw their refuse in the middle of the compound posing health hazards to the school children.

Another challenge facing the school is the lack of a place of convenience for teachers and the school pupils. The Head teacher of the School, Daniel Nkrumah explained to Metro News that teachers and pupils use public toilets when they have to attend to nature’s call. For the pupils, they use that excuse of going to toilet to play truant.

The dilapidated block that serves as a urinal only needs a touch to it on the ground.

To this end the pupils do not use that facility due to the danger it poses.

On teaching and learning materials, Mr. Nkrumah said the school lacks enough furniture for the pupils and during examinations; some of the pupils have to write the exams in the computer laboratory to avoid cheating. He asked for support for the school.

Students Share School with Livestock