CSSPS frustration lingers even as academic work begins on Monday

Scores of parents and their children on friday trooped to the Black Star Square to lodge complaints of challenges they are facing with the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

Checks by The Ghana Report has confirmed the latest update from the GES that the self-placement option is up and running. Despite this intervention, the woes of scores of parents remain far from over.

A visit by the investigative team of The Ghana Report  showed rather long queues with hundreds waiting for their turn to lodge their complaints while others were spotted with brown envelopes, possibly containing documents.

Some of the affected students who spoke to The Ghana Report lamented bitterly about their struggles in securing schools days to the commencement of the academic year. Some mentioned to our reporter that though their grades were relatively better than some of their colleagues, these colleagues have been placed and are getting ready to start their secondary education on Monday while they continue to trek the streets of Accra in search of a school.

Most parents who were at the placement centre expressed frustration with the process thus far. Officials of the CSSPS told the rather desperate Parents and guardians whose wards score aggregate 11 and above to leave and report to the Independence Square on Monday, September 16.

Coincidentally, a number of schools are commencing the academic year on this same day.

Some officials who spoke off camera explained that their focus is on securing schools firstly for students who had obtained grades between aggregate 6 and 10.

Reacting to this, some parents who spoke to The Ghana Report expressed disappointment in the system as they were not informed earlier.

“We got to the placement centre only to be told this, why are they doing this to us? I have a lot of work to do but I have to come and join this long queue since morning only to be told it won’t be possible today,” one parent lamented.