The Wa West District Director of Education, Amatus D. Tug-uu, has decried the lack of school furniture in most basic schools in the district, which, he said was hampering effective teaching and learning.
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He said there was a high deficit in school infrastructure and furniture throughout the district, saying, “this is having an effect on educational outcomes in the district”.
In some of the schools, he said, the pupils had to lay on the bare floor to learn how to write, stressing that it had an effect on the writing skills of the pupils.
“The whole district in general is facing furniture deficiency,” he said.
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Furniture deficit
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Tug-uu said the district needed about 10,000 dual desks to fill the deficit in the schools.
“If I get at least 10,000 dual desks, at least most of the schools would have some furniture for the pupils, and the situation would be better than it is now,” he said.
He said during the just ended terminal examinations by the schools, “when I went round on monitoring, you could see students lying on their bellies to write exams. This is not right.”
Death traps
Aside from the lack of furniture, Mr Tug-uu said some of the classrooms had become death traps due to the lack of maintenance and years of deterioration.
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