[ 2017-02-25 ]

Don’t turn school worships into deliverance services - GES
Mr Alexander Buadi, the Volta Regional Director of
Education, has warned schools in the Region
against turning “school worships” into church
and deliverance services.

He said the 30 minutes “worship” period a week
was meant for motivational, moral and health
talks, and not “deliverance services”.

Mr Buadi gave the warning in a speech read on his
behalf at a review and stakeholders’ meeting of
Pencils of Promise (PoP), an international
education non-profit organisation in Ho.

The meeting attracted Directors of Education and
District Coordinating Directors from 20 districts
in the Volta Region and two districts in the
Eastern Region, the operational areas of the
Organisation.

Mr Buadi expressed regret that some schools were
abusing the worship period and had extended it
into lesson hours characterised by intensive
prayer sessions.

He said the act was “unacceptable” and also
instructed the schools to stop taking offering
from pupils during the worship period, because
they were not working.

Mr Freeman Gobah, the Country Director, Pencils of
Promise, said the spirituality attached to worship
sessions at schools was worrying.

He said a cursory observation indicated that
teachers were not adhering to lesson time tables
and called for supervision in that regard.

Mr Gobah also expressed worry about corporal
punishment in schools and called on directors and
school heads to adopt positive discipline
concept.

He said Pencils of Promise had built 103 classroom
blocks in the Volta and Eastern Regions in four
years, with 13 more projects at different stages
of completion, supported teachers and gave
scholarships to pupils.

Mr Gobah said his outfit would build 40 more
classroom blocks in 2017 and provide support to
teachers.

Source - GNA

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