The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it remains dedicated, ensuring that no Senior High School (SHS) student is dropout of school due to teenage pregnancy, substance abuse or acts of lawlessness.

Mrs Theresah Oppong- Mensah, the Director of School Health Education Programme (SHEP) of the GES noted that peer group influences remained the driving force of teenage pregnancy and substance abuse that manifested partly into acts of lawlessness in SHSs.

She explained that the GES with support from the UNFPA was tackling the menace head-on through extensive training on adolescent reproductive health and life skills for the SHS students.

Mrs Oppong-Mensah said this when she spoke with Sompa FM in Sunyani on the sidelines of an inter-school club leaders and patrons training workshop, underway in Sunyani.
Mr Benjamin Siripi Quartson, the Deputy Bono Regional Director of Education shaping the minds and ensuring proper upbringing and development of the SHS students remained the collective responsibility of all stakeholders.

He emphasised that the GES remained resolute to instil and promote a high sense of discipline, civility and moral uprightness among SHS students, families also had a responsibility in ensuring that their children and wards were brought up in a responsible manner.

Mr Quartson noted that though canning was abolished in schools, families ought to desist from interfering, whenever their children and wards were undergoing some punishment for wrong doing.
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