By Robert Tachie Menson
Dormaa Ahenkro, (Bono), Nov. 1, GNA – Mr Thomas Asante Armstrong, the Headmaster of the Dormaa Senior High School (Dormass) in the Bono Region says about 70 percent of the 219 fresh students who gained admission have reported to school.
He explained that the students were placed under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) but refuted allegations that the school was selling uniforms to fresh students.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dormaa-Ahenkro, Mr Armstrong said the school authorities were strictly adhering to the Ghana Education Service (GES) standards.
He said parents and teachers of the school had agreed and contracted a supplier, producing “another type of uniform” for the students to use temporarily as they waited for the supply of the uniforms by the GES.
“We don’t sell school uniforms here; however, we direct parents to the supplier for them to make their own purchase for their children and wards,” Mr Armstrong explained.
The headmaster said the school had renovated some facilities like the kitchen and repairing the faulty school buses, saying, accommodation for the fresh students was not a problem.
He said: “The only problem we have now is that some of the fresh students who opted for boarding status have been placed as Day students”.
Mr Armstrong explained that the government had already budgeted for the feeding of the boarding students and it would be difficult to make changes now.
He said the school had officially informed the relevant authorities, as they waited for their responses to the problem.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Linda Asante Agyei