FIASEMAN SCHOOL BOARD INAUGURATED (PAGE 11)

Story: Kwame Asiedu Marfo, Tarkwa

A fourteen-member reconstituted Board of Governors for the Fiaseman Senior High School in Tarkwa in the Wassa West District has been inaugurated to ensure efficient administration and good academic performance in the school.
The board will also endeavour to maintain discipline and ensure that resources allocated to the school are used judiciously to promote a congenial atmosphere for effective teaching and learning.
It will also inculcate in the students, moral and academic training in preparation for the world of work.
The Western Regional Director of Education, Mrs Rebecca Efiba Dadzie, who inaugurated the board at Tarkwa, stressed that academic excellence of any school depended to a large extent on discipline.
She, therefore, said it was incumbent on the board members to help the school authorities to maintain a high level of discipline at all times.
“This is because it is only when the West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate (WASSCE) results improve that parents will be encouraged to send their children to this school to help increase its enrolment by way of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS),” she said.
Mrs Dadzie stressed that the education of the child was a collective responsibility of the government, parents, communities and other stakeholders in education.
She said it was based on this policy of community participation that the government instituted the concept of Board of Governors for senior high schools and the School Management Committees for basic schools.
The regional director explained that this was in line with the fact that the school, as a public-funded institution, could not operate in isolation from the community in which it was located.
Similarly, she said the activities of the school could not be divorced from the community, the interest of which the school sought to serve.
She said the community might, therefore, impact positively or negatively on the school, depending on the type of relationship existing between them.
 Mrs Dadzie said the selection of board members cut across all shades of opinion in the communities and districts, since the Ghana Education Service (GES) wanted different interest groups to be involved in the running of public educational institutions.
“It is expected that you will bring your rich experiences to bear on your role to help the school attain greater heights during your tenure of office,” she urged them.
The Headmaster of Fiaseman Senior High School, Mr R.D Ainoo, regretted that though the school was selected in the district to be developed and upgraded to a model school, no word had been heard about it.
“We have never been told when the school and, for that matter, Wassa West District will come on board,” he said.
Mr Ainoo was also not happy about the construction of an administration block which had been ongoing since 1996, adding that “for 12 solid years and there is no end in sight”.