Mr. John Mahama has described as senseless plans by the Minister of Education Hon. Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum to close down non-performing senior high schools in the country.

According to the former President, the menace has been around all this while and sector Ministers in the past rather proffer solutions to improve such less-endowed schools, adding that the former Education Minister and 2020 running mate Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman put in place measures to always improve such schools until they become competitive when she encountered similar circumstance.
Speaking to charged delegates of the NDC in the Ashanti region, Mr. Mahama maintained that such move must be resisted by Ghanaians since that was not the right direction for our education to go as a country since senior high schools would be concentrated at the privileged schools in the urban areas.
The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, at a CHASS meeting recently in Kumasi, challenged Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Princi­pals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET Institutions to improve their edu­cational outcomes or stand the risk of being closed down.
He explained that a school with a consistent zero to 10 per cent pass rate should put together inter­vention programmes to ensure that majority of their students found opportunities for further studies rather than becoming a liability to their parents and society due to their inability to pass their exam.

He explained that closing the schools down would help save the nation the huge financial losses being incurred by the government as a result of the existence of the school so that the affected students would be redistributed to other nearby schools so they could con­tinue their education.
But former President Mahama challenged the Education Minister to rather bring in new plans onboard by improving teacher to students ratio, provide books and other logistics needed for upgrading of education in the country.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/Asante-Yeboah Bennedict