[ 2014-09-17 ]

300 school pupils left to 7 untrained teachers
The fate of pupils at Nansoyiri in the
Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Northern region
hangs in the balance as the school is without a
single trained teacher. The school has a
population of a little over 300 pupils with seven
teachers.

Out of these seven teachers only the head teachers
who has just been transferred out of the school is
a trained teacher.

Meaning the school will be in the hands of six
untrained teachers to teach the over three hundred
pupils.

Upper West regional correspondent Rafiq Salam
visited the school at Nansoyiri in the
Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district and reports of bleak
future that awaits the pupils if urgent steps are
not taken.

The school admitted 16 pupils on reopening day
otherwise rechristened 'my first day at school'.

They have ages ranging between 4 and 10 and are
dressed in tattered clothes.

Their shin and legs are whitish as if they have
laid on white clay all day.

Their hair is unkempt and looks more of a hair
that has been plaited by a half-baked hairdresser
at a salon.

Most of the sixteen pupils came to the school
without a parent or a guardian.

Apart from the response to the usual greeting of
good morning from school teachers, they can
neither speak nor read a single sentence in
English language. However, they all have hopes of
what they want to be in future.

These they communicated who they want to be in
future by pointing at the various officers
including the District Chief Executive, Isaac
Dramani Mumuni.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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