The Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) of the Kpone Community Day Senior High School has inaugurated an Eight-member Committee to raise funds for the construction of a school fence wall.
The school stands on a 19-acre land and the committee has estimated GHc600,000 for the school fence wall project.
Kpone is among the communities in the Greater Accra Region that benefited from the E-block SHS infrastructures former President Mahama’s led government put up in the country.
Albeit an exquisite edifice, the school has no fence wall, so students easily sneak out. Again, squatters are fast encroaching the vast school land reserved for future expansion and other facilities to enhance teaching and learning.
The absence of the school fence wall, resulting in students’ frequent outing without permission, thereby missing lessons, accounted for the school’s poor academic showing in the 2020 WASSSCE, school authorities explained.
Front view of the Kpone Community Day SHS
To nip the students’ indiscipline in the bud and also protect the school’s land from further encroachment, the school organised a fund raising ceremony in aid of building a fence wall around school.
Thus, in his keynote address at the ceremony, Wiafe Akenten, Headmaster of the school, noted that it is imperative the fence wall was constructed to also ward off criminals who burgle the classrooms when school had closed.
“We have no security in the school because our compound is bare. Sometime ago, some of our properties were stolen because we have no fence wall and a night security personnel.
“The governing board of the school, in collaboration with the PTA, have, therefore, agreed to put in plans to restore sanity to the school, hence, the need to construct the fence wall to prevent students from leaving the school premises without permission and also save our properties from thieves and squatters.”
On his part, Harry Evans Arthur, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Education Director, said it was part of his vision to fence all public schools in the Municipality to ensure school properties and students were, at all times, safe from unscrupulous people.
The Eight-member Committee to oversee the project
The Kpone Community Day SHS has been degraded to a ‘D’ school from an ‘A’ for its continuous poor final year results and this, Mr Arthur said the school could do better should the students stay focus and study their books very well.
As a major step to provide the students with the conducive teaching and learning environment, Mr Arthur expressed delight that the school would no more be a thoroughfare and haven for criminals when the constructed of the fence wall commences.
Moreover, students would not be able to evade lessons by abruptly leaving their classrooms when the wall is erected with a security person stationed at the entrance.
“This laudable huge project should be welcomed by parents and all well-meaning Ghanaians who cherish education by contributing their quota,” Harry Evans Arthur appealed to all.
By: Umar Sheriff Musah