Ghana’s schoolchildren, especially those in rural areas, face significant barriers to quality education, despite education being a widely acknowledged pathway to success.
Pupils of Seripe R/C Basic School in the Bole District of the Savannah Region attend school with anxiety, fearing for their safety in the dilapidated classroom blocks that could collapse at any moment.
The classroom blocks at the school are not only dilapidated and weakly grounded, but woods are also cracking, splitting, and collapsing, and the roofs splitting away.
The public school since its establishment has stood unrenovated for decades, leaving its structure in a deplorable state, even though the school has produced notable alumni.
The dire infrastructure poses a serious danger to the safety and well-being of pupils, teachers, and visitors, undermining the overall learning environment and making it a hazard zone
Teachers are sounding the alarm, highlighting the urgent need for improvements to ensure a secure and conducive space for education.
They said they close school early when it’s about to rain, regardless of the time, so kids can go home safely.
Teachers and students are forced to risk their lives to teach and learn in this unstable building, with no alternative but to compromise their safety daily.
“When it’s about to rain, we ask the children to go home because we can’t risk having them stay in school with these shaky buildings looming over them”.
Pupils of the school has made a desperate plea to the authorities to intervene and save their school.
They said if the school collapses, they will have to travel a long way to other communities where they can find a school to attend.
The school is currently in ruins, posing danger to the lives of more than 400 school pupils.
The current state of the primary school is a looming disaster and a death trap as it could collapse on the pupils, resulting in casualties.
The classrooms have developed serious cracks in the walls, coupled with damaged roofing sheets which do not provide a congenial learning environment for the pupils.
Sharing his frustration in an interview with Yagbon News, the PTA chairman of the school,Mr Saaka Seidu , said it was an eyesore for pupils to study in such an environment.
He noted that despite several letters written to District Assembly for action to be taken, they had not received the needed attention.
He said, “We have made several appeals over the years to the government for support to change the current state of the school but no positive response has been received.”
Source yagbonradioonline
