Ghana's Schools Of Shame: Scores Of New Entrant Students Lack Furniture ---At Mepe St. Kizito Senior High/Tech

Lack of furniture forces new entrants or first year students who had reported to sit on the laps of their colleagues in Mepe St. Kizito Senior High Technical School in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region.

Worse of it all is that some of the students stand to learn, coupled with lack of enough learning materials and classrooms, the situation which has compelled some students to study under trees.

Investigations have revealed that there are not enough beds, dinning tables and chairs for the students who were in the boarding house of the school to use.

And that it is disheartening to see many students stand and take their meals at the dining hall," the Soireenews.com has gathered.

The lack of access to these facilities and items in the school is hindering smooth teaching and learning of Mepe St Kizito Senior High Technical School, which is a category C school and one of the senior high schools in Mepe Traditional Area of the North Tongu.

The situation has compelled the first year students to sit on the laps of their colleagues as they struggle to settle in the classrooms.

The executive member of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of Mepe St. Kizito Senior High Technical School who spoke to Soireenews.com on condition of anonymity on Saturday March 18, 2023 stated that the management of the school in the meeting on Wednesday March 11, 2023 informed the PTA about the current plight of first-year students who reported to school.

He noted that these situations not auger well for the students which are affecting their academic work.

"The school management has tried their best. They say some desks will be coming but as to the time they would  come in, we don't know. Because the students are not seated comfortably, so it doesn’t give room for them to concentrate.

"Because we don’t have enough desks, some students sit on the laps of their colleagues. The issue of lack of desks cuts across in the North Tongu District but the situation in our school is different," a teacher at Mepe St Senior Technical School also spoke to Soireenews.com on condition of anonymity.

According to the teacher, the situation is so bad, but the school cannot ask parents to buy tables and chairs, since that would be explained to mean exploitation.

To this end, he appealed to benevolent stakeholders in the education sector and corporate institutions to support education in the school.