Students of the Komenda Senior Secondary-Technical High School have been asked to proceed on a one-week mid-term with effect from yesterday after they embarked on a demonstration over what they described as the indifference of the headmaster concerning a number of their grievances.
Mid-term had been scheduled for early March, this year.
The police had to be called in from Elmina to restore calm after the students, wielding weapons such as machetes and sticks, demonstrated through the compound and rampaged through a number of the school’s facilities and destroyed furniture.
The students vandalised furniture at the computer laboratory, the library, the arts classroom and the Counselling and Guidance Unit.
According to the students, the headmaster had failed to supply them their second school uniforms, even though they had paid for them.
They also complained about the poor quality of food served them at the dining hall and transportation problem even though the school had a bus.
When contacted, the Headmaster of the school, Mr David Bonney, said he was meeting the Regional Director of Education and the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipal Director of Education to evaluate the situation.
He said as far as he was concerned, food served at the dining hall was of good quality and standard approved by the Ghana Education Service.
He said the school bus was always released to the students to facilitate their movements any time they requested it.
He said he did not understand what the students were demanding and said they might have been manipulated to embark on the unfortunate action.
He expressed the hope that the students would return next week for academic work to resume.
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