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U\W: Pupils are forced to sit or lie on the bare floor for studies

By Wendy Amarteifio
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U\W:Pupils are forced to sit or lie on the bare floor for studies
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Pupils of St Mary’s Kindergarten and Primary School in Hamile in the Lambussie District of the Upper West Region are forced to sit or lie on the bare floor for studies.

The six-unit classroom block in the school does not have furniture for effective teaching and learning.

Some basic schools in the District sit on the bare floor to learn. This situation is not only contributing to the falling standards of education in the area but also affects the health of children, especially during the rainy season.

Pupils of St Mary which has an enrolment of 487 pupils from kindergarten to primary six sit on the bare floor for their lessons.

According to some pupils, they are unable to concentrate during lessons and they find it difficult to when writing.

Others complained of having chest pains after lying on the bare floor for the whole day.

According to the assistant headteacher of the school Wilberforce Donkor, aside from the lack of furniture in the school, they also lack teaching and learning aids and textbooks for the various subject areas.

The headmaster said “Although we teach ICT, the school has no single computer. We teach in the abstract. The school is connected to the national grid. We truly need help.”

Parents of pupils of the school also complained that since they come home with dirty uniforms they have to wash the uniforms of pupils daily.

Due to the lack of furniture in the school, pupils usually tend to look down on the pages of their books, therefore, they do not concentrate on the teacher or the blackboard.

In a letter written in November 2018 and addressed to the DCE and signed by the School Management Team chairman, Gaspard Beworenwin, it read “knowing the poor financial status of parents in District, is not prudent for Parents Teacher Association and the School Management Team to harass parents to provide desks for their wards at school.”


Speaking with the  DCE, Mr. Braimah Wikanah, he said: “the lack of furniture in schools in the district is a general problem. We procured and distributed 464 dual desks to some schools in the district so far. We are still making efforts to procure more dual desks for schools that lack.”

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