Some students of St. Louis and Kumasi Girls Senior Schools have vandalized school properties after Ghana Education Service (GES) directed all heads of senior high and technical schools across the country to keep students in schools during the mid-term break, which starts Tuesday, July 20.
The GES had earlier on Monday, July 19, 2021, issued a statement directing all heads of SHSs and Technical schools to allow their Form three students to go on a mid-term break from July 20 to Sunday, July 25, 2021.
But most students were not happy over the changes in the earlier statement, so on Monday night, students massed up at the headmistress’ residence with the intent to stage their protest on campus over the cancellation of the midterm break.
A team of Police and Military personnel were deployed to the schools to restore calm but the students who were on rampage broke veronica buckets and dustbins and other things.
The GES academic calendar drafted in coordination with the leadership of CHASS will see final year students complete 1,080 hours before sitting for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in September/October.
A statement signed by Dr. Kwabena Bempah Tandoh, the Deputy Director-General, GES, said the directive to keep SHS 3 Students in School from 20th to 26th July was to help protect the students against the COVID-19 and the spread of the virus on the various campuses.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, in a statement, said amid the current outbreak of COVID-19 in some schools, the mid-term break may present a challenge to the already precarious situation and present challenges to containing existing outbreaks in schools.
Source Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
