The Ghana Education Service (GES)
has endorsed the action by the
Labone Senior High School to dismiss
over 250 students for non-
performance.
The Director-General of GES, Charles
Aheto-Tsegah, in an interview with
Daily Graphic said every school had
rules and regulations that governed
the training of students and that at
any point in time when those
regulations were called into question;
they were binding on the parties that
signed it.
Aheto-Tsegah added that it would
have been a different case if parents
had not signed any agreement to that
effect, and their children had been
dismissed for poor performance.
“Before admission, you are given a
prospectus that sets out the rules
and regulations of the school which
parents read, sign and have their
children admitted.
“It is a legal document and you sign
it knowing that the school can
transform your child. If your child is
not living up to expectation and the
agreement takes effect, then you run
to the media,” he said.
The Daily Graphic newspaper reported
Thursday that the students were
sacked for their abysmal performance
in the end-of-year examination in
July, this year.
According to the national daily, the
students, who had an average of four
failures in eight subjects, were
booted out when the first term of the
2014/2015 academic year began.
Mr. Ahetor-Tsegah also described as
regrettable, the failure of the parents
concerned to honour a meeting to
discuss the way forward, thereby
giving the school no option, but to
enforce the agreement.
The position of the Ghana Education
Service is however contrary to that of
the Education Ministry who maintains
that “none of the students have been
dismissed”.
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