As first-year students began reporting to the different institutions yesterday, trunks, "chop boxes," beds, pillows, brooms, and brushes were carried from one second-cycle boarding school to the next.
This comes after the Ghana Education Service's Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) placed them in various senior high schools (SHSs) and technical and vocational institutions (TVETs) (GES).
The students were initially supposed to report on February 20, but due to the short notice following their placement, the GES extended the reporting date to February 27, according to a Daily Graphic team that monitored the process. This gave parents and guardians enough time to prepare to send their children and wards to school.
In Cape Coast, Shirley Asiedu-Addo and Francisca Eshun kept an eye on the developments, and in Accra, Dickson Worlanyo Dotse and Yaa Kuffour Senyah recorded their findings.
On the first reporting day, there were throngs of students at the various SHS and TVET institutes checking their confirmations on the schools' lists and registering for classes.
Some schools had to build extra rooms to accommodate their "guests" by hanging canopies to cater to them and expedite the process due to the enormous number of pupils and parents they had to serve.
This is separate from the use of meeting rooms and other locations.
In accordance with the programs they have been given to follow, the students, especially those travelling to boarding homes, could be seen lugging their trunks, mattresses, chop boxes, hoes, brooms, machetes, detergents, and packs of toiletries.
One distinctive aspect was the presence of parents carrying their kids' lunchboxes.
Observation
The team in Accra saw that parents and children had begun showing up at the individual schools as early as 4 a.m. with the goods indicated on the brochure.
The things included, among other things, trunks and "chop boxes," beds, pillows, buckets, brooms, and brushes.
There was a veritable jam of worried parents and kids reported on the roads leading to several of the institutions, including the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC, Legon), Accra Academy, and West Africa Senior High School.
To verify their admittance and to choose their program options for their homes of residence and allocated dormitories, they reported to the administration or designated registration locations.
Also, it was noted that most schools had implemented online registration portals that had simplified, improved, and made things more comfortable, relieving some of the load on parents.
In general, there were no interruptions to any of the school's operations.
Also, the Daily Graphic teams noted that the majority of the incoming students were composed and prepared for their new surroundings, whereas those who had already
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