National Youth Organizer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Opare Addo, has posited that the Free Senior High School initiative by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a good one but is not the solution to the many problems in the educational sector.
According to him, the free SHS policy is indisputably a laudable one because any country that wants to develop properly requires a solid educational infrastructure however, education is not only about Senior High School.
“In the last four years, we’ve reduced everything in this country to free Senior High education and free SHS education is laudable but it does not hold the solution to our numerous problems that confront the educational sector”, he said during an interview on ‘The Youth Decides’ segment on Ryse n Shyne which airs across the Y-Triangle.
Hon. Opare noted that basic education, which in his view has not had much attention paid to it by the current government, is also very important because that is the foundation of education, and free SHS would be wasted if the children do not have the basic knowledge required to build on.
He continued that the NDC recognizes this fact and that is why they have promised to lay special emphasis on basic education and make SHS truly free, as well as improve upon it by taking out the shift system where some students go to school from morning to afternoon and others from afternoon to evening.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye