As a correctional measure to bond the students to be of good bevaviour, the Ghana Education Service and management of Navrongo Senior High School (NAVASCO) have resolved that about 300 final year students of the school who were suspended last week will have to reapply for admission before they are given a second chance to stay on campus for their final examinations.
On Tuesday March 14, 2017, the Municipal Director of Education for Kassena-Nankana Municipal, authorised the management of NAVASCO to suspend the final year students of the school for misconducting themselves. They were said to have worn what the school authorities described as improper attire to the dining hall for their breakfast. However, when some teachers and the executives of the Students Representative Council (SRC) tried to correct them, they went haywire as they pelted them with stones and any objects on sight.
The matter was immediately reported to the Municipal Education Director, Mrs. Ann-Estella Kye-eebo. She hurried to the school to speak and calm the students down but they would not listen to her but rather hooted at her. Not even the heavy deployment of police officers on campus was enough to ward off fears in the disgruntled students.
Fearing that they could go on rampage that night and attack teachers and vandalize school property, the education director ordered their immediate suspension. Following the suspension, some affected students have been seeking shelter in nearby public schools while others are perching with friends and families in the Navrongo township.
Francisca Yizura, the Headmistress of NAVASCO, told TopNews Ghana on Sunday March 19, the students have been recalled and are expected to report in the school on Monday March 20, with their parents to reapply for admission. They are also to apologize to their teachers, the executive of the SRC and the director of education for ignoring their pleas on them to conduct themselves well on the day of the disturbances.
She recounted how students of the school in 2001 and 2010 demonstrated and destroyed properties belonging to the school and some staff and said in the two disturbances, especially in 2010, the students were surcharged for the destruction and also signed a bond of good behaviour.
However, in the recent incident, the students would not be surcharged because no destruction was caused. Nonetheless, they must reapply before they are readmitted into the school.
The 2017 West African Senior High School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) are underway and time is no longer an ally of the candidates who have already wasted one full week as a result of the disturbances.
Source:www.topnewsghana.com
