Management of Aboabo Methodist Basic School in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region is struggling to enforce social distancing protocols due to woefully inadequate desks in the school.
The School with a population of about 430 pupils has only 20 desks in good shape forcing pupils to improvise by swarming on few desks available.
Some pupils in lower primary school had to carry chairs from their homes to school every day.
During a visit by mybrytfmonline.com on Monday, January 18, 2020, pupils were seen salvaging the damaged desks to dangle on them in the classroom as academic work resumes.
According to the Assembly Member for Aboabo Electoral area Samuel Tetteh, the inadequate desks in the school will affect the enforcement of social distancing in classrooms.
“We have a very big challenge here, the school structure itself if you look at the JHS and the KG is a community initiative work we’ve done it is only the primary block Government has done. I have written to the assembly to help us complete but nothing has been done”.
He added “if you look around you could see that some of them are not wearing their face mask those that are wearing too are not wearing it properly. It is lying down their jaw. We need to educate the children much on how to wear face masks. The desks are not many so Students have to sit in there.”
About four (4) veronica hand washing buckets filled with water and attached with liquid soaps were seen on the school compound for regular hand washing.
The temperature of pupils and teachers were also being checked.
Some of the pupils said, they are trying to adjust to the preventive protocols but the inadequate desks in classrooms make it difficult to comply with social distancing protocols.
They also appealed to the government to supply them with nose masks and hand sanitizer.
A Parent who was in the school to seek admission said, she prefers her two children go to school to roaming in the community.
Aboabo Methodist Basic School was established in 1932.
The classroom block put up subsequently has developed deep cracks while stairs to the classrooms have been eroded.
Despite these challenges, the school continues to perform well in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Source: Mybrytfmonline. Com/Obed Ansah
