By Laudia Sawer
Gonteng (GAR), Sept. 18, GNA - Pupils and teachers of Gonteng KKMA Primary School in the Greater Accra Region are battling snakes and other reptiles in their compound.
The school, which was built by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) some years ago, is located in a lush greenery area surrendered by a thick forest which is home to the reptiles.
Mr David Asumanti, Head teacher of the school, has therefore appealed to organizations, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly (KKMA) and individuals to help fumigate the school and its immediate surroundings to keep them at bay.
Mr Asumanti said it was very worrying to have the reptiles in the school as they posed a threat to teaching and learning.
Touching on other challenges in the school, he told the Ghana News Agency that due to the limited classrooms, classes one and two, three and four, and five and six were held in the three available classrooms and handled by one teacher each.
He also said his office had been converted into teachers’ accommodation to keep the four teachers of the school adding that he travelled each day from Zenu near Ashaiman through Oyibi to Adamorobe and walk over one and half hours to the school as no vehicle plied the area due to the rocky and hilly nature of the place.
Potable water is an expensive commodity to the pupils and teachers as they daily consume untreated discoloured stream water.
A toilet facility for the school, also had its roof ripped off during a rainstorm early this year leaving it bare.
Pupils of the school, who were about 60 could only continue their education after their primary school at Adamorobe or Aburi in the Eastern Region as the Gonteng community was located between the two and has no junior high school.
Mr Christopher Adjetey Adjei, an ICT and Ghanaian language teacher and one of the long serving teachers in the school, said getting food to eat or provisions to buy was very difficult as they had to walk for long distances to the nearest towns before getting some.
Mr Adjei added that parents of the community were poor farmers and therefore could not support the school financially to provide for its needs.
According to him, some parents also did not have cordial relationship with the teachers as they got offended whenever their children were punish for doing wrong.
Mrs Rosina Adobor, Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Education Director, revealed that her outfit had appealed to the Assembly to help provide additional classrooms to house the kindergarten to class six as well as to provide decent accommodation for teachers.
Mrs Adobor said due to the scattered nature of the Gonteng community, the teachers often visited homes of children to encourage their parents to enrol them in school.
GNA
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