We will not perform well if we write WASSCE from home, say Bolgatanga Technical students.
Candidates for this year's West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute in the Upper East Region are pleading with the Regional Security Council and school authorities to consider recalling them to school as soon as possible.
According to the candidates, if they continue to stay at home while taking the exams, they may not perform well.
On Tuesday, August 2, the Upper East Regional Security Council closed the school after students clashed with police and school staff over examination malpractice.
The students vandalized school properties including vehicles and some teachers bungalows. It took the intervention of the Police to restore calm in the school.
Calm has since returned to the school and candidates were seen successfully writing their Integrated Science papers.
Some of the candidates who requested to speak to our correspondent Peter Agengre indicated that all was not well with them writing the exams from home.
Sleeping on the streets theres no light. How can we learn and write the paper? The paper didnt go on well with us. So we are just pleading they should let us come back and be learning in our groups. Youll be reading while sacking mosquitoes from your body. A female student cried.
The Principal of the Institute, Zackary Yorose said he was happy that calm has been restored and the students are writing their exams peacefully.
He stated that the decision to allow students to stay at home while taking exams was made solely by the Regional Security Council and that he had no say in the matter.
ASP Erasmus Donkor, the officer in charge of the CTU and High Way Patron Unit in the Upper East Region, assured the students of the best security protection.
The three students who were reported to have been arrested have been granted bail and are cooperating with police investigations.
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