Juaben SHS students demonstrate as WASSCE apor swerves Jobs and Artisans

A team of police officers has been deployed to the Juaben SHS in the Juaben District of the Ashanti region after the final-year students hit the streets to demonstrate against the teachers and the headmaster of the school over what they describe as their strict invigilation and supervision during the sitting of the Integrated Science paper.

The students said they could not write the paper because none of the things they studied featured in the exam questions.

The police say they had to move in quickly to disperse the students from the streets.

In order to ensure peace on campus as the students sit the Leatherwork and ICT (elective) paper today, ACP Stephen Tane Ngissah told Kumasi FM’s Elisha Adarkwah that they have deployed a team of police personnel to the school.

This is the second such incident in the Ashanti region since the WASSCE started on Monday.

The first one happened at the Tweneboa Kodua SHS at Kumawu in the Sekyere Kumawu District, where the students vandalised school property in anger for not being allowed to cheat in their first paper.

Just today, a Deputy Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Ms Kathleen Addy, condemned those final-year students and their vandalism.

The enraged students hurled abusive words at the school authorities as they went about destroying school property amidst complaints that the first paper was too difficult an exam to sit.

They also complained that the supervision of the invigilators was too strict.

It took the intervention of the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Sekyere Kumawu, Mr Addai Agyekum, told calm the situation.