Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed dismay over the decision by the government to include second year Senior High School (SHS) students in the double track system.
Despite the government’s claim that the double track system was not going to affect second and third year students, all second year SHS students are still on vacation, with some due to go back to school in late February and in March.
The unfortunate situation has become a matter of concern for Mr Mahama who says it is not proper to keep the students at home for such a long time, and he is putting the blame squarely on the government for causing the chaotic in secondary education.
Mr Mahama said this when he addressed delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Sefwi-Akontombra on Sunday as part of his five-day flagbearership campaign tour of the Western Region. He says attending SHS is a one's in a life time experience for students and it is therefore dangerous for any government to mismanage secondary education as the NPP government is doing.
Mr Mahama denied that an NDC government would collapse the free SHS system, saying that the next NDC administration will rather strengthen Free SHS by making the appropriate interventions for correcting the mess created by the government.
He has repeatedly pointed out that his next government will eliminate the double track system by investing in additional classroom and dormitory blocks with commensurate teaching and learning materials to enable all students attend school at the same time and ensure adequate contact hours between teachers and students.
Mr Mahama has also promised to complete the remainder of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, which were started by his government and has been abandoned by the current administration.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Mahama should be quiet about the FSHS, for he had no knowledge and idea about it.The only policy Mahama knows is I would review.
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I say your JM has woefully not understood the double truck system and no sane NDC member is commenting constructively on this issue-based statement. And I repeat, MAHAMA has not understood the double truck system for some SHSs.See my reasons below.
I say your JM has woefully not understood the double truck system and no sane NDC member is not commenting constructively on this issue-based statement. And I repeat, MAHAMA has not understood the double truck system for some SHSs.See my reasons below.
MR. LISTEN OR WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, LISTEN TO WHAT YOU WROTE:" I DON'T EVEN FEEL THERE IS AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM RUNNING IN GHANA". We are not talking about your FEELING. Who cares of what you feel. We are talking about a workable system to get our uneducated young ones get education. Development rides on education to succeed. If you have struggled in life to be educated, you will understand free SHS and its challenges.
SO Kunado AND THE LIKES, YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO BUILD ALL CLASSROOMS BEFORE FREE SHS!!!!!! WHAT A WARPED THINKING! IT IS BETTER TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ON A FOOTBALL PARK THAN TO ALLOW THEM TO ROAM THE STREETS WITH MATCHETS ATTACKING PEOPLE. THE PRIORITY NOW IS TO GET PEOPLE GET EDUCATION.
Mahama and serial caller. Any difference?
J M best president in Ghana after Dr Kwame Nkroma, Nana Addo is the laz y president Ghana has had , king promise , Disgrace is always with you , owusu bempa is calling you ,
usle s s Akufo Addo has started free shs with out putting down even one clacc room , how can you haverest yam without planting yam
This is serious, Mahama has not understood the double track system. Then, the double track system is anticipated to go on for about 5 or 7 years until enough infrastructures have been provided for all schools identified to be on the double track system. .There are, however, some schools which the second year students might need to continue with the system in the absence of adequate infrastructure to accommodate them. Much as others with adequate infrastructure in place in the second year might straight on graduate back to the single track, the normal system.