DCE threatens to shut school down after eight year of scoring 0% pass for BECE

Ghanadot

August 8, 2009

The school, Anyinam Kotoku Local Authority Methodist Junior High School and the District Chief Executive (DCE) Baffuor Ankomah Takyi; both are on collision course.

As the DCE warned, failure to reverse the trend of 0% pass rate for BECE would result in the shutting down of the Kotoku school.

In a town meeting held with the folks at Anyinam Kotoku, near Akyem Oda in the Eastern region, the DCE put parents and teacher on notice that they will soon lose their school if concerted efforts were not made to produce better examination result at the local school.

The Basic School Examination is a required for school leavers of junior high school in Ghana.

There is a prevailing notion in the district that the school is situated that the inability of these students to pass the exams was due to a spell cast by an evil spirit.

The DCE, Mr. Fosu, sort to dispel the notion by warning parents, students, and all that evil spirit or not, the government could not afford to spend huge sums of money on their wards for the kind of results they have been producing for the past eight years.

He urged the traditional rulers, parents and their wards to use every resource that was practical to reverse the adverse performance of their kids at the BECE level.

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