Dr Christopher Boatbil, the Talensi District Chief Executive (DCE), has given the assurance that all basic schools in the district would receive the required number of furniture to improve academic work.
He said the huge furniture deficit was a problem in many schools in the district, compelling children to learn on bare floor, but that would be a thing of the past before the end of 2020, as the assembly was investing strategically to improve basic education in the area.
“Apart from difficulty in acquiring the required textbooks and other teaching and learning materials, one of the major challenges confronting basic schools, not only in Talensi but the whole of Upper East Region, is inadequate learning materials and to some extent lack of furniture for the pupils.
“The situation has compelled many children to sit on the bare floor to learn and lie on their stomachs to write, which is leading to decrease in enrolment and poor academic performance,” he added.
Speaking to journalists at the ‘Meet the Press series’ in Tongo, the DCE said the assembly had constructed and distributed a number of desks to basic schools in the district and promised to add more.
He disclosed that 750 metal dual desks had been given to schools while 400 out of a potential 800 dual desks were ready for distribution to more schools in the district.
Additionally, the assembly through the District Development Facility (DDF), was procuring 1,600 dual desks for the schools.
“Before the end of 2020, I am assuring you that no child in Talensi would sit on the floor to learn, it would be a thing of the past,” he added.
The DCE further disclosed that apart from a number of new classroom blocks being constructed in some schools in the area, all the schools which had their roofs ripped off were all renovated and were in use.
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