LACK OF TEACHERS AT AKPAFU ODOMI M/A BASIC SCHOOL IS HELLISH

Akpafu Odomi  is a farming community at the Hohoe District in the Volta Region.

Cassava, maize, Cocoa among others are cultivated in the area.

The only school serving the community is the 67 year old with a total enrollment  275;   148 girls and 127 boys.

The dilapidated school structure lacks teachers right from the primary level to the Junior High School.

Reliable source indicates that, the teachers who could no more bear the hardships they go through I the community applied for  transfers to other  schools, leaving the children to their fate.

According to our Volta Regional Correspondent, Edem Wenchy Vuvor, the Parents and Teacher Association had no choice than to search for helping hands outside, to assist in teaching the pupils.

It was the resolved that each parent has to pay an amount of Gh 25. 00 per pupil, each term to employ the services of other hands to teach the children. 

A parent with five wards in the school lamented that he has to pay one hundred and twenty five (Gh 125. 00) per term which is a heavy toll on him.

Some parents have had to withdraw their children for farming due to their inability to pay the expected amount.

Inadequate teaching and  learning materials coupled with absence of text books for the learning of  English Language, Mathematics, Building Design and Technology (BCT)T, Social Studies and French

The school lacks computers for teaching and learning of Information Communication and Technology, yet the third year pupils have few months to write their final exams.

Mensah Joan,  Adzisam Benjamin and Agyei Emmanuel   all pupils in the school, said about three (3) years ago most of the teachers left the school with no reason which is affecting teaching and learning negatively.

 They are therefore appealing to the government as a matter of urgency, to   come to the aid in the provision of a better infrastructure and teaching materials.