Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed concern over the government’s poor implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
He says the challenges facing the implementation of Free SHS are adversely affecting the quality of secondary education.
Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency as part of his flagbearership campaign tour of the Ashanti Region, Mr Mahama wondered why this year’s students are being made to spend just 41 days in the classroom under the double track system.
He said turning secondary education into green-gold “traffic light” under the double-track system could be detrimental to academic work of students, adding that it has brought pressure on parents to raise additional money to pay for remedial classes for their wards.
Mr Mahama observed that the Free SHS policy is a constitutional requirement and it is therefore important that it is properly implemented.
He has therefore reiterated his point that a new NDC administration will fix the challenges confronting free secondary education in Ghana by eliminating the double-track system.
He promised to build new dormitories, additional classroom blocks and also complete all the 200 Community Day Secondary School buildings as part of measures to reverse the double track system.
Mr Mahama has therefore urged delegates of the NDC to give him the mandate to lead the party to victory in the 2020 elections.
Source: 3news.com
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But these kids haven't even sat for the SSCE yet so why should their parents be paying for remedial classes? remedying what? their end of term exams? Or Mahama is now seeing into the future? Hmm Ghana. If NDC is not careful Mahama will collapse their party
He bribed his way through to become the president. Remember the roles Dr. Afari-Gyan and Jce Atuguba played. Nana Oye Lithur and Asantehene were the laison personalities(go-between). Prez Mahama and NDC as a whole do not have vision. They don;t think outside the box. Recently they burgled One District One Factory Secretariat to steaaaal documents just to use in their manifesto. They have failed to realize that any version of the 1D1F policy created by any party will be regarded as st000llen from NPP. There is nobody in the Economics and Finance committee with PhD in Economics or Finance.
Anti-Education NDC! They are afraid that if the populace become educated, NOBODY will vote for them anymore!
This Bole Bamboi conman is a f000*000l and nothing but a f000**00l! how can a former president talk like this? very st*upid indeed! I don't care what his followers will say but that is what he is! He has never brought his vision but critiquing others when you've been so called president before,if not a f000*00l then what? somebody in power and beaten to pulp, very massive and humiliating and sent home then you turn around and say I'm coming back for my seat like he created the seat, and coming with insults and nkwa*seasem and Nkwa*sea akeka nkoaa ! Since he staged his disgraceful comeback this man has never talked sense. 2020 he will face the most defeat ever happened in Africa before. He is a f000**00l
RIGHT NOW NDC DOESN'T HAVE ANY MESSAGE TO GHANAIANS, ALL THEY LOOKING AND PRAYING FOR IS FOR NANA TO MAKE MISTAKES SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE CAPITAL GAIN ON THEM. THIS PARTY IS DOOMED IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. I'M FORESEEING NEW BREAK AWAY IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. JDM AND HIS COHORTS WILL DESTROY THIS PARTY EXACTLY LIKE THEY DID TO THE GHANA ECONOMY. BY THE TIME THE PARTY REALIZES IT WILL BE TOO LATE. TIMES HAVE CHANGE, THE DAYS OF DECEPTIONS AND PROPAGANDA ARE OVER. GHANAIANS ARE WELL INFORMED AND WILD AWAKE. OLD WAYS OF DOING, ASIEDU NKETIA POLITICS IN GHANA IS OVER.
hmm.. what of if more infrastructure is built and the double track is done away with before you win, what else will your presidency be about. any bold initiatives?
And who is going to vote for you to come and change it. Abi! don't live in a ***barred word*** paradise and think Ghanaians have short memory as you one said. But, you said it cannot be possible. So why the U-turn
Hanging on to short memory, it won't happen, at least not for me.
WELL IF THAT IS THE CASE HOPE YOU ARE WORKING THE MATHS WELL AND PUTTING DOCUMENTS TOGETHER. GM
Listening to this man and his party, they have not put out any policy to Ghanaians but I will change this and do that. They cannot think on their own apart from create loot and share. They lieeed that they will make the NHIS a one term policy but failed in 8 years. The steeeeeealing and the sharing of the V8 to chiefs, pastors and comedians like Akua Donkor could have been used to kick start but Mahama did not see it as important but rather left a debt of 1.2m cedis for Ghanaians. Total Incompetent government