Free SHS: I wept when I picked up my daughter from school –Joseph Yammin

“The free SHS is not working, students are getting lean because they are not being fed well and not being taken care of in schools” These were the words of a former Deputy Youth and Sports Minister under the John Dramani Mahama administration, Joseph Yammin, speaking in a radio interview on Kumasi-based Ultimate monitored by MyNewsGh.com.

The former appointee sounding emotional said he wept when he was over in the Central Region to pick up his daughter from school when they were forced to go on vacation just a month after reporting to school.

He is urging parents not to remain quiet over the poor treatment meted out to innocent students who deserve better as they are the future leaders of the country.

“The child goes to school and is just taught for two weeks, the parents will have to pick the ward home and stay for three months, what kind of education system is this?”, he asked.

“I took my ward to school in the Central Region, February 29 as the last day they reported, the whole month or March two weeks were used for orientation and getting them to their various classrooms. They studied for the next two weeks and they vacated on the 4th of April to stay home till the 9th June, so what is the sense in getting the kids to go to school in the first place” he questioned

“Prospectus alone, I didn’t finish calculating it, but it was hovering around 7 thousand cedis and at one point I had to stop. So the parents will pay 7 000 cedis to get the child to school minus transportation. Some students are coming all the way from the Upper East Region to the Central Region, so transportation alone is not an easy thing”, he lamented.

Mr. Yammin notes students are now growing lean when leaving school.

“So, what is happening now is that a bag of rice that is supposed to feed ten people, the headmasters have been asked to use it to feed 20 people. Two ladles full of rice to the students is today’s one because it’s all about management. I am saying this, because I wept when I went to pick up my ward from school. If parents don’t have money to supplement what is being provided to their wards, they come back from school slim, I mean reduced, wretched, what kind of a system is this” Yammin bemoaned.

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