Nifa SHS prevents 71 students from taking the WASSCE due to a truancy charge.
Authorities of the Nifa Senior High School (SHS) at Adukrom in the Okere District of the Eastern Region have prohibited a sum of 71 last year understudies from composing the continuous West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) over charge that they played delinquency.
The 71 understudies - 55 young men and 16 young ladies - contained 40-day understudies and 31 visitors who are for the most part General Arts and Visuals Arts understudies.
As indicated by the data posted on the school's notification board and dated eighteenth July, the 71 understudies didn't meet the limit of class participation during concentrate on periods, and besides, they couldn't fit the bill to sit for the last assessments.
The notification which was addressed to staff, guardians, and understudies contained that the 71 understudies had shown a "elevated degree of delinquency" and that 12 of them left the school matter-of-factly and their whereabouts couldn't be followed.
The notification likewise demonstrated that 40 of the "no-show" understudies absented themselves going from 405 to 616 showing periods out of the absolute of 621 periods in their three-year studies.
It at last advised that 19 of the 71 understudies likewise absented themselves going from 194 to 396 periods out of the 621 periods.
The school specialists, in this manner, concluded that, in view of the participation measurements, they wouldn't allow those 71 to sit for the end of the year tests until the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) had requested in any case.
In any case, there has not been any dispatch from the outfit of the GES Director-General separated from one that he gave on June 9, 2022, expressing what ought to be the discipline for such "no-show" understudies.
The D-G's report refered to by GhanaWeb read, "Understudies and guardians ought to be made mindful that these assents can be applied:
1. Deboardinization
2. Composing the assessment under police/parent escort
3. WAEC not conceding them to the assessment community to compose the papers."
The Director-General's dispatch additionally encouraged "school specialists to report any crook demonstrations of understudies to the Ghana Police Service (GPS) for examination and ensuing indictment."
It likewise coordinated that understudies under police examination during the time of BECE and WASSCE would be permitted to compose their papers under police escort.
The Director-General at last coordinated in the dispatch that "Understudies with disciplinary issues in the school can come to the assessment habitats joined by their folks."
GhanaWeb Eastern Regional Correspondent, McAnthony Dagyenga, accumulated that despite the fact that the understudies were banned from the tests, they got no type of discipline for their wrongdoing and the individuals who were guests had not likewise been deboardinised yet partaken in their boarding sculptures.
The WASSCE started on Monday, August 1, 2022, however the 71 understudies have been passed on to their destiny with some sauntering around the school compound and trusting that they may be permitted into the test lobbies to join their mates to sit for their practicals.
A portion of the 71 understudies portrayed their trial to GhanaWeb Eastern Regional Correspondent and spoke to the public authority to earnestly come to their guide since their future is essentially being denied them.
"I'm interesting to the public authority to accomplish something for our sake since this will influence my future. This is my future."
"Upsetting me is going. I finished JHS in 2016. It was challenging for me to go to class (SHS). In light of Free SHS, I had the option to come to school," one of the impacted understudies said.
Another understudy, a visitor, likewise portrayed that he carried his folks to the school yet the Headmaster, Dr. Phillip Victor Akoto, didn't pay attention to their request and demanded that he wouldn't permit the understudy to compose the last assessment.
"That is the reason I am interesting to the public authority to come in to help us," he said.
In the interim, a watchman, Emmanuel Awuku Appiadu, who had two of his wards denied admittance to compose their assessment, has raised concerns, expressing that, the guardians have never gotten any notification from the school concerning their wards being no-shows.
He again raised that the school had also not notified parents about any disciplinary actions taken against their children about any criminal or disciplinary charges.
"So, it is strange for us to hear all of a sudden that our wards are not going to be allowed to write their final examination because of truancy," Appiadu expressed.
When GhanaWeb approached the Headmaster, he uttered, "I don't talk to people like you," he snubbed and walked off.
Meanwhile, when contacted, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the GES, Mr. Asiedu Acheampong, said the regional GES office has not received information on the matter from authorities of Nifa SHS.
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