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Assembly takes serious view of improper dressing of students

The Executive Committee of the Obuasi Municipal Assembly has taken serious view of the improper manner some students of senior high schools in the municipality dress to school.

Date Created : 7/28/2009 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

The committee noted that students are often found dressed in a style popularly known as 'otto pfitzer" or "I am Aware\", and said the practice undermined discipline.

This was after the Education Sub-committee had reported the improper way some of the students in the SHS dress to school in the municipality to the Executive Committee meeting on Friday.

The assembly agreed to officially write to the heads of the institutions to express its dissatisfaction about the practice, and the need for the school authorities to check that behaviour. It also directed the Obuasi Municipal Education Directorate to ensure that the schools embossed their crests on their school uniforms.

The schools identified included Obuasi Senior High Technical, Christ the King Catholic, Adansi Technical, Just Love SHS, St. Margaret Educational Complex, and Father Morphy SHS.

Lawrence Nana Bondah Obeng, Chairman of the Education Sub-committee, in his report also criticized the mushrooming of private schools in the municipality, some of which operated in structures that have no urinals and places of conveniences.

The Municipal Chief Executive and Chairman of the Education Sub Committee, John Alexander Ackon, bemoaned the practice whereby some proprietors and proprietresses turn their residential buildings into private schools.

He accordingly directed the Obuasi Municipal Education Directorate to furnish the Assembly with the names of all registered private schools in the municipality for further action on the mushrooming matter.

On the structural problems facing the Obuasi Presbyterian Junior High School, the Educational Sub-Committee blamed the municipal assembly and AngloGold Ashanti for dilly-dallying with the issue as the building may eventually sink one day.

The committee noted that no action was being taken on the school's situation despite several letters to the AGA and the numerous recommendations to the assembly.

In response, the Municipal Chief Executive tasked the assembly's engineer to furnish him with a report on what needed to be done about the school building and the cost involved.