Parents Urged To Set Good Examples For Children To Emulate
The Blue Star Preparatory School at Akrofufu in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region, has organized a School Management Committee (SMC) meeting with a call on parents to set good examples for the youth to emulate.
Mr. Edward Kwadwo Fordwour, proprietor of the school who was addressing the meeting at Akrofufu near Kwabeng stated that the youth must be given moral training that will imbue them with the right values that will teach them “the fear of the Lord”, and help them to distinguish between good and bad.
The SMC, which initiates the managerial policies of the school deliberated on future enrollment, additional infrastructure, and school measures to contain COVID-19.
The proprietor told the meeting that failure for parents to invest appropriately in their children would lead to a very bleak future, adding: “Our youth require holistic investment to ensure the transformation that will, in turn, ensure a better future”.
“The youth are the future of our nation, hence, investing in them would mean investing in the future of the nation”, he said.
He noted that school fees were the main source of income for private schools in the country and urged parents to promptly pay their children’s fees.
“If parents refuse to settle for their children’s fees it becomes difficult for the school to employ qualified teachers, construct decent structures and provide school buses for the children”, the proprietor stressed.
He appealed to the government to extend the School Feeding Programme to private learning institutions to enable them to contribute their quota to educate Ghanaians.
Mr Fordwour was optimistic that the Directorate of the Ghana Education Service would assist private schools in their fields of operations, to enable their schools to keep abreast with the latest guidelines.
He also appealed to the “Big Establishments” including VALCO, GACEM, Financial Institutions and others, to endeavour to consider approving their applications for assistance in respect of school buses, cement, loans and others.
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