Some students posted to Serwaah Nyarko Girls SHS in Kumasi have vowed not to vote in the 2020 elections if they are not placed in boarding houses at the school.
According to the students, there is no way they will accept being day students considering the fact that government is providing free basic needs at the senior high level.
There is pressure at the Serwaah Nyarko Girls School to accommodate students that have been placed there this year.
Authorities of the school say, the school can only accommodate about three hundred even though about five hundred and fifty one students were placed there making it impossible to house all of them.
The school is therefore left with no option than to make all students living in and around Kumasi day students and while prioritizing students from outside Kumasi for consideration into the boarding facilities.
But the school’s decision has not gone well with parents who are from and around Kumasi.
Some of the worried parents said, they have no option than to send their wards back to Junior High School (JHS), since they cannot afford the cost of transportation to and from school on daily basis.
It is to this end that the affected students have vowed not to vote in 2020.
In an interview with Abusua Fm’s Wofa Atta Frimpong, the students say there is no way they are going back to JHS as their parents are suggesting.
Some say they will rather stop schooling or engage in vocation than to go back to JHS but ‘teach the government a lesson in the 2020 elections.’
Source: abusuafmonline.com
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority. |
N0nnsense. Go and burn the sea. Who cares if you won't vote.
The same situation is being encountered by parents of students going to University Practice Senior High School in Cape-Coast. The school authorities say that they can only accommodate 20 boys and 80 boys in the boarding house out of more than 400 students who got admission in the school. This situation has compelled parents of many students who could not get placement in the boarding house to look for hostels for their wards. Some of the hostels are going to cost parents GHS 650 a term. Free education indeed.
stop schooling and go to magazine. non sense
Haha hmmm don't vote then d free shs will cancelled if dats wat u wnt ??
If u wont vote go to h3ll, we are sick and tired of you people. If someone give u a room to sleep u expect the person to give u broom to sweep the room too. Do u expect those from afar to rather be day students for u staying around to be boarders. Just because it is free SHS doesnt mean all the students posted there must be boarders, use the daily feeding money u would have given them as transportation since the government want to feed day students too. I wish the government had not taken the accomodation part so that we will see if u would have allowed ur wards to be day or boarders. mtcheeew
So their could have afforded to pay their children's admission and tuitions fees had it not been the free SHS but they claim they cannot afford to pay their wards' transportation to school. Ghana!!!!
Kwasiafuooo...if you like dont vote...if free shs hadn't come....