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Politics of Friday September 4, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-09-04
NDC Standard Bearer, John Dramani Mahama
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Standard bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has said that the government would not have had to introduce the current two-track system and struggle with its implementation if President Nana Akufo-Addo and his administration had applied common sense during the planning stages. of Free Senior High School policy.
According to him, the ruling government could have completed the 200 community day schools that the NDC started during his tenure to solve the challenges burdened with the dual-track system currently running in upper secondary schools.
“Our Constitution says that any government that takes over from a previous government must continue the programs and projects of the government from which it took over … And if the Nana Akufo-Addo administration used planning and common sense, then what What I should have done was take the 200 new community day schools and speed them up and finish them so that we don’t have the double track that we are currently going through, ”Mahama said when he paid a courtesy visit to ManWe Naa on Thursday 3 September. .
The NDC flag bearer promised to complete the 200 community day school projects when he returns to power in the upcoming December elections to solve the problem of the dual track system in second cycle institutions.
He explained that the NDC started the free SHS in 2015 with only day students and, due to the overwhelming numbers recorded at the time, the government decided to build the community day schools to eradicate the threat.
Former President Mahama said: “We canceled all school fees for children who were day students in upper secondary school and in 2016, we enrolled 140,000 boarding students in the scholarship system, but we knew that with the implementation of the free SHS, there would be an increase in the number of children coming to secondary school and therefore, starting in 2015, we initiated an aggressive policy of increasing and expanding the infrastructure in existing secondary schools, but we realized that no matter how much we expanded infrastructure, the children were going to overwhelm the existing secondary schools ”.
“So we said ‘OK, let’s build 200 new high schools so that all children can have access to secondary education,’ and that’s why we started all these community day schools,” he added.
But the PNP government abandoned these development projects when they took office, emphasized Mahama.
He also promised to fix the gaps in the Free SHS policy to make it work better.
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