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Some pregnant girls managed to sit down for BECE
Girls who become pregnant in school have been urged by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to notify school authorities of the necessary documents to facilitate their smooth return to school after childbirth.
Ms Patricia Birago Gyamfi, GES Eastern Region Girls’ Education Officer, who said this in an interview with GNA, noted that failure to report means these girls would be captured as dropouts. and would therefore have no file to facilitate their reintegration into school. , in particular high schools (SHS).
Often, she added, some pregnant girls managed to sit for the Basic Education Certificate (BECE) exam to be placed in SHS.
But the challenge was that most of them may have given birth or in the late stages of their pregnancy, and fail to go through the registration and documentation processes when placed in school to confirm their placements and their records at school.
She said that such situations created many challenges as the placement of students would be canceled for non-enrollment and therefore would have to rewrite BECE to follow the replacement protocols again, which often posed a challenge for teenage mothers.
Parents and guardians should therefore follow up and register their pregnant daughters or foster children, she said, as they could have an arrangement with the school to ensure the best welfare for teenage mothers. to continue their studies.
Ms. Gyamfi spoke of the advancement of the “back to school campaign” for teenage girls who have become pregnant and others who have suffered consequences as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
As part of the “back to school” campaign to achieve its goals, she said, middle and high school staff and students have been counseled and sensitized to support and build good relationships with students. pregnant or teenage mothers in schools to encourage them to stay in school.
She called on parents to support their pregnant daughters or those who have given birth to enable them to take advantage of the reintegration policy to continue their studies.
She added that “the government through the GES allows teenage mothers to go back to school, but parents and guardians have a critical role to play in realizing the full potential of the policy.”
She described the rate at which some girls who became pregnant after BECE returned to school as encouraging in the eastern region, noting that the report from 28 of 33 municipalities and districts indicated that many girls had benefited from the policy. to go back to school.
The Eastern region recorded 10,856 teenage pregnancies in 2020, the second highest after the Ashanti region, which recorded 17,802 teenage pregnancies in the national ranking.
The “back to school campaign” was introduced by the government to ensure that these girls return to school during pregnancy or after childbirth to continue their education.
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