By Jones Anlimah
Vakpo Senior High School in the North Dayi District of the Volta Region is in dire need of teachers, infrastructural, logistical and personnel assistance. According to school authorities, this is seriously affecting academic fortunes of the school.
The Headmaster of the School
Mr. Joshua Yao Vidzro has therefore appealed to the government and benevolent organisations as well as the Old Student Associations of the School to come to it’s aid and help turn the fortunes of the school around.
Mr. Vidzro made the appeal when the 1992 Old Students Association of the School commissioned a mechanized water facility for the female students of the School.
Vakpo Senior High School was established in 1965 at Vakpo in the North Dayi District of the Volta Region. With a pioneering enrollment of 32 in 1965, the School currently has a student population of about 1,560.
Since it’s establishment, the School has not seen much infrastructure development. Most of the existing infrastructure in the School were provided by the Parent-Teacher Association of the School.
The School is thus classified as a less endowed one with lots of challenges that needs urgent attention to enhance academic work.
According to school authorities, these challenges do not create a conducive environment for teaching and learning and is also defeating the vision of making the school a center for moral and academic excellence.
The Headmaster of the School, Mr. Joshua Yao Vidzro, tells Gbcnews that teachers handling some subjects in some courses being taught in the school are highly inadequate and seriously affecting the said subjects and courses.
“In the Visual Arts Department we only have four teachers who do all the teaching. We don’t even have a teacher for Sculpture. Anyone doing the teaching of Sculpture is doing so out of previous knowledge. We also have only one Biology teacher catering for all the Science students. We have only one female staff on campus to cater for over 800 students, so it is one is to eight hundred. And if you come to the male side, we have two teachers handling over 700 students. This situation is also bringing about indiscipline because the students out-number the teachers.” he noted.
Even though the school has an ICT Lab, Computers in the Lab are non-functional. This compels authorities to look for alternatives from other places and sources for any serious ICT studies.
“we are the only school in the district doing pure ICT yet anytime we want to write ICT we have to fall on the district chief executive to go to villages where there are computers to get us computers …” he posited
The Headmaster also raised issues with infrastructure and water-related challenges impeding academic work.
“Apart from two major buildings which belong to the government, the rest are all PTA initiated projects. There are decongestion in the dormitories so if we should get a new dormitory for both boys and girls it will go a long way to help us….” he added.
In a bid to reduce the impact and effect of the water-related challenges, especially on the students, the 1992 year group of the school has provided a mechanized water facility for the female students of the School.
The Girls Prefect of the Okay Ms Juliet Afari thanked the 1992 year group and said the facility will help them in managing their time for serious academic works. “So far as we have the facility now we will be time conscious. We will go to class early to practice the silent hour and it will improve our academic works.” She remarked.
The year group also organized a free eye screening for the female students of the school. end.