Pastor Maxwell Obour Boateng Awuah, the President of the Midwest Ghana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) at the weekend raised concerns about the growing trend of indiscipline in Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the country.
He said radical, decisive, and concerted approaches were required to tackle the high level of lawlessness, radicalism, violence and acts of aggressiveness taken over the SHSs, recommending the re-introduction of canning to bring back discipline in the schools.
Pastor Awuah raised the concerns in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani on the side-lines of joint service organised for SDA students in Sunyani.
The Sunyani Municipal branch of the Ghana National Association of Adventist Student (GNAAS) organised the service which was attended by more than 800 students from tertiary and SHS levels in the Sunyani Metropolis.
Pastor Awuah therefore called the Ghana Education Service to collaborate with stakeholders to find lasting solutions and stem and reverse acts of lawlessness in the SHSs.
He also expressed concern about inadequate educational infrastructure that had bedevilled some of the government absorbed missionary schools and appealed to the government to support the schools.
Nonetheless, Pastor Awuah commended the government for her immeasurable contributions to the growth and development of quality education in the country, hoping that with the government support, the GES would be able to tackle the growing indiscipline in the schools.
Pastor Joseph Kyeremeh, the Sunyani Municipal GNAAS District Pastor and Chaplain of the Sunyani SDA SHS expressed concern about acts of immorality, substance abuses, and occultism which were gaining grounds in some SHSs in the country.
He therefore stressed the need to bring together the SDA students periodically, interact with them in identifying and helping to tackle emerging challenges confronting their spiritual and social lives.
Pastor Kyeremeh cautioned SHSs students against pre-marital sexual practices that could truncate their education and thereby ruin their future, asking them to always concentrate on their books and cooperate as their teachers help to build their future.
Source: GNA
