Concerned parents protest against illegal removal of PTA at SWESBU

General News of Sunday, June 9, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-06-09

Some worried parents of SWESBU (Swedru Business School) have appealed to the Ghana Education Council (GES) and the director general of the GES to investigate the alleged collection of compulsory levies on EPAs from students last year without the authorization of the Council.

According to parents, the authorities forced the last year students to leave the school due to the lack of payment of 45 ¢ Gh ¢ before writing their last memoir (social studies) last Tuesday.

Parents' spokesman Kofi Andah told the media that it was scandalous and mischievous for the school authorities and the PTA to violate the Council's directives to suspend the collection of the levy. PTA until their problems are solved.

It will be recalled that a few months ago, the GHG Council had ordered the suspension of PTA dues payments in all upper secondary schools (SHS) until the end of discussions with union leaders. PTAs.

He added that when some parents received messages from their services stating that school authorities would refuse to sign their discharge forms for non-payment of the PTA tax, there was no such thing. There is no choice but to pay to save their children from harbadment.

Mr. Andah appealed to the GHG Council and the General Manager of the GHG to investigate this matter, as some students whose parents could not pay the fee did not sign their application. authorization forms.

According to him, the tax was a special fund to complete a government-run dormitory project launched more than five years ago by the government.

Mr Andah added that the authorities claimed to have received a letter from PTA officials authorizing the SWESBUS authorities to collect the fee.

As a result, he called on the Council and the Executive Director of the GHG to act swiftly to stop the unauthorized collection of AWP levies from parents so as not to defeat the policy. free SHS.

Mr. Kobena Andam, a parent who spoke to the media, claimed that SHS in Agona West, with the exception of SWEBU, imposed similar royalties, and requested the opening of a investigation.

When Mr. Sakyi Sam, President of SWEBU PTA, was contacted, he explained that the school did not violate the GHG Board guidelines because no money was collected from the parents.

Indeed, the PTA was waiting for the National Union of PTAs to come to a conclusion with the GES Council.