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Chief Executive expresses worry
about use of foreign songs
Koforidua, July 16, Ghanadot/GNA- Nana Adjei-Boateng, New
Juaben Municipal Chief Executive has expressed concern over
the use of foreign songs and dances to perform choreography
at schools.
He said: “all school activities should encourage the
children to appreciate our own culture,” and added that “adowa”,
“kete”, “kpanlogo” and other Ghanaian dances could be used
to perform the choreography.
Nana Adjei-Boateng who expressed this at the first ever
open-day of the Sarkodee basic schools in Koforidua after
they had performed a choreography said education from the
beginning must build the sense of patriotism in the
children.
Recently choreography has become one of the main activities
at speech and prize giving days, open days and other school
functions using mostly South African lyrics and dances to
perform.
Nana Adjei-Boateng commended the leadership of the school
for organizing the programme after 50 years of its existence
and urged the parents to show more interest in their wards’
education.
He indicated that government could provide the entire needed
infrastructure but if parents failed to collaborate with the
teachers it would be difficult to achieve the desired
results.
Nana Adjei-Boateng told the parents that their
responsibility was beyond buying uniforms and providing
logistics and urged them to visit their wards in the schools
and find out how they were faring.
The headmistress of the school, Ms Esther Fianko, said it
was sad that most parents did not visit the school or even
attended programmes meant for them as far as their wards’
education was concern.
She appealed for a fence wall around the school compound to
protect lives and property since the absence of it had
opened the school to all sorts of indecent activities even
during school hours.
Ms Fianko revealed that the situation had resulted in the
theft of teachers bags from the classroom.
She later opened an exhibition of creative works by the
students.
The Sarkodee School was established in 1938 by a Koforidua
based philanthropist, Mr Sarkodee Addo, at the premises of
the Regional hospital and was later taken over by Government
and relocated at its present site to make way for the
construction of the hospital.
GNA
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