TANO SOUTH DISTRICT OBSERVES ‘’MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL’’

The Tano South District Chief Executive, Hon. Bukari Zakari Anaba, District Co-ordinating Dierctor, Mrs Agartha Ahia, Officials of the Tano South District Assembly, the Deputy District Director of Education and Officials of the Tano South District Directorate of Education have visited Primary schools in the Tano South District to interact with new entrants of KGI and Primary one to mark ‘’my first day at school’’.

The team which was divided into groups to cover the various educational zones saw the DCE, DCD and DDE leading their various groups with each group presenting educational materials, soft drinks and goodies to the new entrants.

The Tano South District Chief Executive and his group which visited Bechem Zone saw the DCE addressing pupils and teachers of the schools he visited .The District Chief Executive in his addresses said government is committed to improve the educational system of the country and for that matter, government through the Tano South District Assembly has been able to construct a number of school buildings to boost infrastructural development of our schools and to eradicate schools under trees and advised parents to send their children to school to enable them have brighter future.

Hon. Anaba stressed that, the Tano South District Assembly is putting measures in place to begin the distribution of chalks and other teaching and learning materials to all public schools in the District and called on Head teachers to call for P.T.A meetings regularly to address some of the problems facing their various schools.

On examination malpractice which is becoming the order of the day in our schools, the District Chief Executive called on the pupils to discard the notion that their teachers could help them in their final examinations and rather learn hard so that at the end they could work for themselves without any help from outside.

Hon. Anaba said, the introduction of the school feeding programme has gone a long way to reduce the financial burden on parents and has increased enrolment in our schools and called on those who kick against government policies and programmes to desist from it, since it would not do us any good and hinted that the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection which is now in charge of the school feeding programme is putting measures in place to extend the programme to all public schools in the rural areas.

Speaking on behalf of the Tano South District Education Directorate, Mr. Duah Oppong Richard a member of the DCE’s group urged teachers to attend school regularly and punctually to teach the pupils so as to make them acquire reading and writing skills and tasked teachers who handle KGI to primary three (3) to comply with the two thousand and seven (2007) educational policy reforms.

Similar messages were carried to all the schools in the remaining zones by their group leaders.