The Private School Teachers Association is urging legislators to refrain from evaluating the overall success of the government’s main education program, Free Senior High School, using results from the 2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) (Free SHS).
The group claims that if people start asserting that about the implementation of the policy, they will be completely mistaken.
In response to a speech made at the Opoku Ware Secondary School 70th anniversary celebrations in the Ashanti Region that was ascribed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Association’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. William Baako, issued this caution.
Based on how pupils performed in the most recent two West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations, the president claims that Free SHS has been more effective than what was previously in place (WASSCE).
According to the third class of Free SHS graduates’ 2022 WASSCE results, 60.39 percent of pupils scored A1–C6 in English, up from 51.6% in 2016.
According to him, “in Integrated Science, 62.5 percent will record A1 to C6 in 2022, compared to 48.35 percent in 2016, with this year’s results being a modest decline from the 2021 pass rate of 65.7 percent.”
On Monday, December 5, 2022, Mr. Baako responded to this on Accra 100.5 FM’s mid-day news: “Said the policy is wonderful, don’t get me wrong, but the challenge is in the implementation,”
He disputed the idea that the policy could have been improved if it had been adopted gradually.
He asserted that a progressive free market approach, as advocated by previous president John Dramani Mahama, would have improved the program.
He pointed out that one of the obstacles to the admirable attempt to get all children of school age in the classroom is the policy’s widespread implementation.
He argued vehemently that oversight and monitoring of the policy’s execution across the nation was necessary to improve it.
Source: newsthemegh.com