The Savannah Regional Education Directorate has entreated parents of Senior High Schools(SHSs) in the region to ensure their wards report to school.
This appeal comes after most of the students did not make a presence in school after it was reopened three weeks ago.
Hajia Katumi Natogmah Atta, the Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service(GES) who made the appeal said the situation is worrying.
“I am appealing to parents in the Savannah Region to allow our students to come to school. We have reopened and as of Friday the attendance wasn’t encouraging. So I want to tell parents that we have reopened, and we are prepared to teach, so parents should allow their children to come to school.
She added that there will be no special consideration for students in the region in regard to the academic calendar.
“The academic calendar will not change for Savannah. The time they write WASSCE will be the same time that students in Savannah will also write WASSCE…so if they don’t come it will be difficult for the teachers to cover the syllabus,” she said.
Hajia Katumih Nantogmah Attah had earlier called on all stakeholders in the Savannah Region, especially parents and community leaders to join hands in addressing the low education standards in the Region.
Speaking on the poor performances of nine SHSs in the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the region in September 2022, she said the responsibility in education is very huge and everybody has a role to play so far as education is concerned.
Meanwhile, statistics from the Savannah Regional Secretariat of Ghana Education Service indicated that from 2018, all nine senior schools in the Region scored below four percent (4%) while in the following year (2019), again, all nine schools scored below five percent (5%).
In 2020, only Bole SHS pulled up with 12% while six other schools all scored between zero and one percent in the same year.