Quality education presents many opportunities for community development. To have a quality education, among other things, require a conducive teaching and learning environment.
But can the teaching and learning environment of Kobilmahigu English and Arabic (E/A) Primary School be described as conducive?
Lack of maintenance has left the 3-unit classroom block in a bad state, serving as death traps to the pupils and teachers of the school. The deep cracks in the building coupled with the unfriendly floors of the classrooms are disturbing enough to make learning uncomfortable.
“We fear for the pupils and teachers in the school should there be any rainstorm during school hours,” the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Chairman of the School, Iddrisu Alhassan said in an exclusive interview during a visit to the community by our Guest Reporter, Abdulai Khadija Tipagya.
He revealed that the school, which serves Kobilmahigu, Botingli, Bantoroyili and a number of communities in Tali Electoral Area in the Tolon District, has not seen any maintenance since it was built over a decade ago.
Apart from the dilapidated state, the three-unit classroom block is not sufficient to accommodate all the classes resulting to the combination of pupils in the Kindergarten (KG) 1, 2 and Class 1 in one classroom, Classes 2 and 3 in another and the last Classroom for the 3 upper primary classes, Mr Alhassan said.
This, he said, makes teaching and learning ineffective.
He said calls on the Tolon District Assembly to help address the challenge has yielded no results yet.
On behalf of parents and pupils in the beneficiary communities, the PTA Chairman reiterated the call on Tolon District Assembly, central government, NGOs and philanthropists to assist them to renovate the existing three-unit classroom block while they advance plans to build more classrooms to accommodate all the classes to ensure conducive teaching and learning for better education outcomes.
Mr Alhassan appealed to the Tolon District Assembly, central government and NGOs to use the COVID-19 break to at least renovate the dilapidated classroom block before school resumes next year as directed by the President.
0 Comments