”Are They Now Concentration Camps?”- Some Parents Deplore SHS Conditions

Are the authorities aware of the serious distress our children in the Senior High Schools, SHS, are going through?   The cluster of concerns monitored by this portal on an early morning radio call-in programme in Accra finds the most appropriate definition in this punchline.

One parent said she had an emergency call that the school authorities complained of a shortage of food supplies and that the food at their disposal was reserved for those in Form One. It was then disclosed that the students in Form Two were made to look for their meals, meaning parents should send the affected children money.  For a single parent who was not readily available, because he had traveled out of the country, a friend had to rush to the school to rescue his ward.

Others unleash the experience of being served with one ladle of porridge for breakfast. ”Our children are starving, the headmasters are stressed out.” What aggravates the problem is that ”some schools do not allow parents to bring cooked food to their wards because they consider that approach as a recipe for breeding bedbugs.

”Eii Ghana, I can’t laugh” a voice vibrant with despair poured out. It continued, ”In our days, bedbugs were uncommon, we were not congested in dorms, we had metal beds, and maintained a high level of cleanliness. Now there is congestion all over.”

The distressed parents asked, ”CHASS where are you?” ”PTA Associations where are you all?”