The Chairman of the Ghana Medical Association in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Paa Kwasi Baidoo has appealed to the Ghana Education Service to rethink its decision to send students back to school despite the increasing number of cases of the virus recorded in the country.
He quizzed why Ghana is refusing to pull out of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE) just like countries like Nigeria.
In an interview with Francis Abban on the Morning Star Thursday, Dr. Paa Kwasi Baidoo said that the Ghana Education Service is putting the lives of students in danger by sending them back to school.
“Is the exams we are conducting worth the life of our students? you don’t have to have an entire school testing positive before you think it is serious. In Ghana, we think the examination is more important than the life of our students when Nigeria has pulled out of the exams. The loss of that student at KNUST SHS is shameful to a country like Ghana,”
However, the Chairman of the Ghana Education Service(GES) Council, Michael Nsowah, all students whose parents picked them up from schools over the COVID-19 fears will be isolated during their final exams in order not to put the rest of the students in danger.
This came after some parents invaded schools to pick up their wards after several cases recorded in other schools.
“If we are unable to contain the pandemic in schools and send the students home, are we not endangering the general community? Parents are free to take their children home but when the time comes for exams, they [students] will be isolated,” he told Starr News.
