Veteran educationist Professor Stephen Adei has reiterated that former President John Dramani Mahama’s decision to build some 200 community schools was impractical and a waste of time.
Prof Stephen Adei said the school buildings, with a capacity to enroll 1,500 students each, is unnecessary because it would not be beneficial to these smaller towns.
“They are only useful for urban areas. All that they have put in the villages are going to be useless.The only people who benefitted from it are the contractors not Ghana’s education,” he said.
However, during his tenure as president, Mahama, justifying the need for the community Day Senior High Schools said over 184,500 students will have access to education once the project was completed.
“I’ve been asked by many people why we have built such huge edifices to house secondary schools. Each of these schools has a capacity to take 1,500 students. Currently as I speak with these e-blocks we are building 123 of them that should give you the scope of the size of the intervention that we are doing into secondary education. This probably will go on record as the single largest expansion of access of secondary education in the history of Ghana.” John Mahama said at the inauguration of the seventh Community Day Senior High School at Abease in the Pru District of Brong-Ahafo.
Meanwhile Prof Adei, in an interview on ’21 minutes with KKB’ stated that day and boarding SHS are suitable for larger communities where access to amenities are much easier.
To him, the day schools in smaller towns pose some daunting challenges including the lack of boarding facilities for students who may be posted to schools in villages as well as teachers who may be denied bungalows.
“They are useless because to transport 1,500 people you have to go about 30 km radius in order to fill them without any boarding, without any teachers’ bungalows, nothing. How can you do so?” he explained.
On the other hand, he added that although he supports the ideas of community schools, the villages needed approximately 10 smaller boarding or day Senior High Schools.
“So it was a module gone wrong but I support the idea of having community schools.” He lamented.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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***barred word*** professor
The pro is right to some extent. One of the reasons is that, if you think of it, you will realise that majority of those schools were wrongly sited. it will make decision makers and town and village folks put pressure on the limited farm lands available unnecessarily as they try to move to the location of the schools, to either put up boarding faculties or staff bungalows and the likes
where were u when u and Mic Nyinaku refused to increase beige staff for 4 years? Nonse grayard hair
Mahama has put up Day schools as a short term measure and so what prevent Nana Addo to add boarding houses to it. If Mahama were still in power He would have by now built boarding houses / hostels to add to the Class Room. If you want the road to your School in Dodowa to be reconstructed pls go to Nana Addo and talk it over with him and stop this childish behavior.
papa what kind of backward analysis u re making? mahama did not build that day shs for ur ***barred word*** free shs, come to think of it ur so called double intake. when ur government promising free shs do they ve in mind infrastructure? common sense should tell u people that u need to conduct ur research very well so where he has build day schs without bungalows u can provide it to make easy for ur gove. u just want to insult him but there is no intellectual wisdom in what u re saying.
i take great exception to the thought of this man. upon all his management thought on motivation, how was employees of Beige Capital treated? For 4 years there was not increment of salary, not even bonus even when the company was making profit each year. He should just ***barred word*** and go to bed. even your professorship was challenged by your own student.
this man is a complete waste
fake prof how many useful once did your government build?
This Adei man kruaa say make we do am waytin. Can you imagine his level of thought? So so infantile. I just can’t think far. How can you say the schools are ***barred word***. So the place you built your school is useful because it was built by you. Can you imagine some of these so called educated people in our societies
I believe the Prof. Needs medical attention. Has he forgotten that there are too much pressure on social amenities in the cities and as such these locations can also serve as a way to reduce the burden and also bring development to the local areas. Please somebody should help this man before he goes naked on the street please.