Private schools in Ghana are displeased over what they call a discrimination in the school selection and placement of students into Senior High Schools by the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The private schools alleged that some 30% of admissions into Category A Senior High Schools (SHSs) have been reserved for only public school children. But, speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, President of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS), Dr. Damascus Tuurosung said the policy is discriminatory and added that placement of students should be based on merit.
He revealed that the Association in the past has dialogued and written several letters pleading with the government to reverse the policy but that has not yielded any positive response from the government.
“We have never rested on our oars in our attempt to fight and reverse it. We have in the past dialogued and written letters to the Minister of Education, the previous minister, current minister, we have written letters to him,. We have had opportunities to meet the minister and plead with them to reverse it. But you see, all this while, it looks like our dialoguing with them is not going anywhere because nothing is been done about the policy.”
At the recent launch of GNAPS week celebration, the Association served notice that it was going to seek legal redress on the issue. Dr. Tuurosung said the constitution of Ghana is very clear about the violation of children’s rights through discriminatory policies in terms of education.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Osuman Kaapore Tahiru|Ghana
