The plight of Klistech Students In The Wake Of Free SHS.

Klikor Secondary Technical School (KLISTECH)

The eventual arrival of the long-awaited campaign promise of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), while in opposition, which is a Free Senior High School (SHS) program is very much welcomed by parents across the country with much inexpressible joy of gratitude despite the few technical challenges it faces with placement of students who qualified for the program.

It is one of the greatest expectations of parents especially those who endure a perennial burden of providing everything for their wards when schools resume on a fresh academic year. From this year onward, hopefully, all that burden will remain a thing of the past as the Free SHS program promises to take care of all major bottlenecks parents face in seeing their wards throughout the academic periods.

This program is the same for all beneficiary students in all schools across the country. It is fair especially for high rank schools under the Ghana Education Service (GES) but irritatingly unfair for the less privileged schools in the area of inadequate resources such infrastructures, adequate teaching staffs, teaching and learning materials and even logistics, not forgetting availability of rooms for rent by day students who hail from distant places.

The scheme never spoke on how that will be taken care of as schools we know of lack more than what I enumerate above.

Speaking on schools that fall under this category, I want to touch only on the fate of students who are on admission at the Klikor Senior High Technical School (Klistech). This because I can talk in detail about things Klistech is lacking for years as long as quality education is primary to the introduction of this Free SHS program.

I am certain it is also the hope of parents of students who are to benefit from this charitable program.

In all modesty, Klistech has been at a disadvantage of adequate infrastructure, adequate teaching staff and learning aids for some practical programs of study.

The nature and condition of some classroom blocks is very worrying on sights from across the streets to the campus.

The beauty of an educational premises contributes massively to the confidence of students who are looking to excel academically at the end of their stay in that institution; and that is an undeniable fact. In a case where the outright appearance of an educational institution with students competing with schools that lack not even a pin, and are ranked higher by the same examining authority, the hope of a good academic excellence is nothing to be desired.

What I cannot tell is whether it is the sole responsibility of the people of Klikor Traditional Area in the Ketu South District of the Volta Region to provide these amenities to the school, GES at the district, regional or national level, or the sitting government that introduced the almighty Free SHS.

What I can say, and will love to see done with immediate vehemence however, is that the right authorities responsible must rise to the occasion and supply every and all things lacking in the Klistech school so that students coming from both far and near may enjoy the same serene state of mind that students of the privileged schools equally enjoy.

This, I believe, is the only sure way we can attain fairness when ranking schools based on academic performances of students in the West African Senior High Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCEs).

The question of how long this institution lacks these amenities I can not provide an adequate answer to but I believe it is the wish of some students concern that these be addressed with immediate effect.
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Thə CŁƏrk.
(Klikor & Diaspora)

For Interview, contact:

Assemblyman for Klikor Electoral Area
Hon. Ignatius Kofi Futukpor
0242301748