The Head of Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Cassandra Twum Ampofo has urged parents to take keen interest in the selection of Senior High Schools for their children who have completed Junior High School to ensure a smooth placement.
According to her, this will help prevent the incidence of children choosing schools their parents do not approve of.
JHS students who completed their BECE on Friday, November 19th, 2021 are expected to commence the selection of schools from 29th November to December 14th 2021.
Before then, the GES has begun a sensitisation programme to educate all stakeholders on the guidelines for school selection.
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Speaking on Atinka TV‘s morning show, Ghana Nie with Ekourba Gyasi simpremu, Cassandra Twum Ampofo said,”Every year you may get one or two people who will come up with issues but largely, our objective for doing the sensitisation is for the students and parents to understand the process and this time around all what we want to do is to drum home the fact that parents must really get involved.”
She continued that, “Most of the time when they come, they will say they did not choose the school and that the teacher did and they do not like it. Unfortunately, most of the parents do not get time. The work they do is important but they have to squeeze at least two hours of their time to do this for their children.”
She added that,”If your child has completed JHS and is going to SHS, find time or ask for permission from your places of work to help in the process to prevent the event where parents will say they do not like the schools, this year we do not want that again.”
Meanwhile, she said choosing the school after writing the examination was good because the children will choose the school weighing their strengths and weaknesses.
On the sensitisation, she said the GES will adopt multiple channels including going to mosques, churches, media and social media channels to send information to all stakeholders.
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