Children in Bo are still refusing to go to school, although a week had elapsed after the general Presidential and Parliamentary Elections of 2012.
The situation is spread among both the Private Schools, Government Schools and Government-Assisted schools.
At the Bo Government Secondary School, Awoko discovered that more than 50% of the children are yet to return to the Boarding and that about 60% are yet to start classes. In a class of 56, the junior secondary school class JSS 301 registered only 14 pupils coming to school on Monday. And this the Class Master told Awoko was happening “due to the elections.” The pupils on their part explained that “our friends are afraid as that why they have decided to stay home.”
At the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School the children seated in the classrooms numbered about 20 to 30 in some classrooms.
A teacher at the Tahir Ahmadiyya Muslism Junior Seconday School, Alieu Swarray, attributted this to “negligence on the part of the pupils.” He went on to explain that “we the teachers came to school yesterday and the attendance rate was the same as today.”
At the Methodist High School, Awoko met only three pupils in the Senior School class SSS1Art. But their teacher told Awoko that “it is because the SSS1 pupils are only beginning school today.”
By Jenkins Bawoh
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