By Patrick Stephen Tokpah
The only public elementary school in Kamara-Ta, Sanoyea District 7, Bong County, is in a deplorable condition, as students sit on the ground to write.
Speaking in an interview with the Inquirer recently in Kamara-Ta, following a tour in the district, the Youth president of the Town, Aloysious Joe, revealed that the school is experiencing serious shortages of armchairs, as the kindergarten division uses mats to sit on.
According to him, parents have been asked to provide mats as a means for their children to sit during school hours, something he described as a serious embarrassment to the learning condition of the kids.
The Kamara-Ta Youth president put the estimated number of students that are attending the school at over a hundred, and from other nearby towns and villages in the district.
“If nothing is done to curtail the growing embarrassment, the school administration might not open the school for the next academic year, because the school building is also experiencing leakages,” Joe stressed.
The Kamara-Ta Youth president and some parents, meanwhile, used the medium to call on the Ministry of Education through the Bong County School System, and humanitarians, to come to the aid of the school.
They said kids and youths in the town are in dire need of quality education; as such, MOE should urgently intervene in the lack of chairs case and create a conducive atmosphere for learning.
They also added that the lack of qualified teachers is another impediment for students of the school, adding that some of the students walk over 45 minutes to get to the school but sometimes there is no teacher because most of the teachers are not on government payroll.
Joe disclosed that the employment of teachers is essential to the growth and development of the school, and at the same time, underscored the importance of a well-working facility will help to curtail some of the difficulties students are going through on campus.