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Karateshie Prim. Sch. in Tempane cries over strange, biting insects taking over classrooms

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The classroom block of Karateshie Primary School at Tempane in the Upper East Region has been taken over by some strange, biting, foul-smelling insects, making teaching and learning ineffective.

According to a GhanaWeb report monitored by A1Radioonline.com, the insects are said to have made the only primary school in the area serving about 10 communities their a permanent home and not even efforts by school authorities to drive them away have helped the situation.

The online media outlet reported that the insects live in the roof of the school and periodically fall on the floor of the classrooms, disrupting teaching and learning and discomforting pupils and teachers.

The situation according to GhanaWeb has been explained by a teacher of the school, Atiah Soloman, as mostly disrupting classes; and that they only resume lessons when teachers are able to drive the insects out. He noted that the school goes barely a day without a visit from the crawling invaders.

“We bring them [pupils] back later when we {Teachers} are able to drive them {insects} away for teaching and learning to continue.”

In his narration, he said the school goes barely a day without a visit from the crawling invaders.

Mr. Atiah believes it may only take the intervention of higher authorities to deal with the insects because according to him, all attempts, including the use of pesticides, to rid the school environment off the insects have not yielded good results.

On his part, Head Teacher of the School, Issah Ibrahim, told GhanaWeb it would take a complete renovation of the school to drive the insects away.

Expressing the school’s grievance, he said the findings of a team of fumigators who earlier visited the school to assess the situation indicated the issue of the insects is seasonal.

According to Mr. Issah, the assessment by the experts has diminished their hopes of ever wining the fight against the insects.

In order to fix the challenge, the Head Teacher called on authorities to consider renovating the school.

Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Ghana

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