Step Aside If You Can't Support Underperforming Schools - Mahama To Adutwum

Yaw Osei Adutwum to let someone take over from him if he cannot help students in low-performing schools to improve.

According to the NDC flagbearer hopeful, the Minister’s statement that all underperforming schools will be shut down if they do not improve is unacceptable and demonstrates his incompetence.

Adutwum to “stop assigning blame and accept responsibility for the underperforming schools and address the issue head-on.”

He posits that it is the Minister’s responsibility to ensure that all schools have the needed resources to improve their academic outcomes.
Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, many of the low-performing schools were raised to a certain level to a point that competed with the best-performing schools.

He noted however that since the NPP government took office, academic excellence in many of these low-rated schools has declined dramatically due to negligence.

“It’s not the fault of the schools, their poor performance, it’s your duty as the Education Minister to properly resource all deprived schools, so you cannot close down any school in Ghana,” he indicated.