Pupils of Numesua Primary School Risk Learning In A Damaged Wooden Structures.
Pupils of the Numesua District Assembly Primary School, a village near Tepa of the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region risk their lives daily studying in a damaged roofing structures.
The classrooms were constructed in a quest to make education accessible to children but the current story of the school is different when journalists paid a short visit at the school on interview mission.
According to our investigations the wooden structure built by the residents has not seen any major renovation and has deteriorated to such an extent that it poses as a death trap for the pupils.
The poor state of the school building coupled with the tattered roofs force teachers to abruptly end teaching at anytime when clouds gather.
The classrooms are terrible for teaching and learning making teachers to feel uncomfortable when visitors pay them a visit.
As a result of the sordid situation,school children report to school late at 10am and 11am because of distance challenges that link to some villages to the school.
Residents said teachers are reluctant to accept postings to the school due to the poor state of the school and road networks.
There is also daily scrambles over the few desks for the pupils.
Pupils who are unable to make it to school early to reserve a desk for themselves before class sessions either perch on their colleagues or embrace the discomfort that comes with sitting on the improvised seat, a pile of wooden boards.
Academic work does not only grind to a halt at the sight of clouds because of the collapsing structure part of which has been ripped off already, but the pupils returns to school to meet drenched desks and an ardours task of draining water from their classroom.
Nana Kwadwo Mogyie, chief of Numesua then appealed to government to help fixed these problems to make education accessible to his people.
Assembly member for Numesua, Hon Micheal Birbia disclosed that beams and rafters with which the structure has been roofed have rotten and are loosely hanging on top of the classrooms.
Because of this, portions of the classrooms have been designated as danger zones where pupils have been barred from sitting as a measure to make room for the fall, he added.
The lack of adequate accommodation for teachers in Numesua has also contributed greatly to frequent absenteeism on the part of teachers who commuted daily to the town from other destinations.
Teachers travel all the way from Tepa which is about 30km to Numesua to teach.
