JAPASS in dire need of infrastructure

From Ernest Best Anane.
The Jachie/Pramso Senior High School is in dire need of infrastructural development to help improve both academic and administrative work.

Nana Konadu Yiadom I, Headmaster of the school, who is also the Chief of Biaso and the Twafuohene of Kenyasi No1 in the Brong Ahafo Region, has appealed to old students to come to the aid of the school.

The Headmaster commended the Old Students Association for its support, which has helped moved the school forward.

He expressed worry over the few dormitories for both male and female students, and the uncompleted fencing of the school as a challenge for both administrative and academic work.

According to him, because of the small size of the Assembly Hall, and inadequate dormitory facilities, the school cannot admit more boarders, hence, most of the students are day students from nearby communities, who, as a result, report to school late.

According to him, the school has chalked more successes with the assistance of the old students, indicating that it won the Vodafone Icon competition and performed well in the literary group, and also became first in the spelling competitions for males and females, won the super zonal, with the boys coming second, and the females 15th, and won the fastest boy in the competition, and in reading.

He noted that all these were achieved through the efforts of the teaching staff and students.

Mr. Kakraba Ampem, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gold Street Real Estate Consultant, as Guest Speaker and old boy of the school, stated that education is a serious business, because it has to train competent individuals to be capable of managing their own affairs.

According to him, meaningful education comes with proper planning, and for that matter, the school authorities must make proper planning to ensure that the products they are producing would become successful individuals and useful to society.

He lamented on what he described as misplaced priority by the government in the provision of new Day Senior High Schools, while existing senior schools are under-developed.

Mr. Ernest George Asare, President of the old students association, indicated that the target of this year's Homecoming Summit of the Old Students Association is to raise about GH¢252,000 towards the construction a boy’s dormitory.

He pleaded with all stakeholders, corporate bodies, and old students to come to the aid of the school to expand infrastructural development.