TEACHERS and pupils of Patasi, Sesease and Kokoben (PSK) Primary School in the Ashanti Region are living in fear as their classrooms have become death-traps.
The development, Today gathered, has been compounded by the invasion of dangerous reptiles like snakes, scorpions which visit during when classes are in session.
The situation, this paper learnt, has put both pupils and teachers at a precarious state of being bitten by these dangerous reptiles.
The school, established some 52 years ago by the community, Today understands, has been deprived of adequate classroom blocks, teaching and learning materials, sanitary facilities among others.
Currently, the school which has a population of about two 275 pupils with a teaching staff of 10, Today can confirm, is likely to record the next school building disaster if the authorities do not act with urgency to relocate the children.
“We are living in fear because our numerous complaints to school authorities concerning the deep cracks that have developed in almost all the classrooms have not received any positive response…but we fear very soon the building will collapse on us,” the distraught pupils and teachers told Today.
The teachers showed some pieces of broken clay blocks that had peeled off the building.
When Today visited the school premises recently, the paper observed that the deep cracks have made learning difficult for the school children.
In some instances there had been partial attempts to fix some mortar in cracks.
Speaking in an interview with Today, Assistant Head teacher of the school, Mr. Elvis Atakora, lamented the poor state of the school, saying “We are still using this deadly structure because we have no option. We have reported it to the Asante Mampong District Metro Director of the Ghana Education Service. Even the then MCE, Sampson Kwadwo Aboasu, visited the school on so many occasions and promised to fix it, but nobody knows when this will come to pass,” he noted.
He appealed to philanthropists to come to the aid of the school and also provide them with a teachers’ bungalow since “we are all staying at Mampong and are spending much on transportation.”
The Unite Committee Chairman of the area, Mr. Akwasi Obour, equally called on government to get them a new school building.
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