With the double-track system attached to Akufo-Addo’s kind of Free Senior High Policy, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa claims that the system has derailed the free concept in the program, making it more expensive than Mahama’s progressively free senior high program.
According to him, parents can attest to the fact that they are paying more money for extra classes and hostel facilities due to the implementation of the double-track system in Akufo-Addo’s Free Senior High School Policy.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the former Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary insisted that the double-track system has been a nightmarish experience for parents especially as they have to organize another teacher to teach their children at home while they wait for their turn to go back to school.
“What we are saying is that double track has been a nightmarish experience, double-track has affected contact hours, affected time on task and double track has undermined the so-called free concept, because if you look at money that parents are paying for extra classes and hostel fee. Check how much parents are paying under the free SHS as compared to how much they paid under the progressively free SHS,” he claimed.
Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa maintained that the double-track system became the next and easy way out for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the Akufo-Addo government failed to complete Mahama’s Community Day Schools.
“What we are saying is that the double-track exists just because when the government took over power, it abandoned the Community Day Schools that former President Mahama was building. As we speak, they have abandoned all those Community Schools,” he asserted.
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text books for elective subject is not the responsibility of the government, if you want to comment on something, at least educate yourself. so far this opposition have not offered any alternative to the double track, just noise, you had 8 years you couldn't complete 30, you will use days to complete what? sometimes i'm tempted to insult these opposition who have nothing useful to offer this country.
@NAT: If they have not provided textbooks at least i have been given some relived. ahba As for extra classes when there was no free SHS they were all over so i do not see why any rational being will blame government over this.
As if Okudzeto didn't school in Ghana... candidates have always selected their schools and has never been based on location of the student and u build community day schools in areas and commuters with small population which cant even fill the school (babies and aged inclusive) and expect me to select that school for my ward... ***barred word***. when planning for such facilities u consider the population... at least a boarding facility would have been better... n he comes out with no shame to criticize someone... I blame the media houses u give audience to anything
Please ask Education Minister if they have provided Textbooks for Elective Subjects over the past 3 years. Serious parents are buying and paying for extra tuition for their wards. Those whose intention is to just get their children through the system instead of the system going through their children are happily jumping for this "kwashiorkor political education" rolling before our eyes.
You don't know what you are saying. Just keep quiet.