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The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) is urging parents and guardians to accept without complain Senior High School placements given their wards by the Computer Placement exercise.
General Secretary of CHASS, Felix Essah-Hienu told Joy News the schools into which the students have been placed were the choices of the students themselves and not by the Ghana Education Service (GES).
His comments come in the wake of public criticisms of the Computerised Placement Exercise.
Hardly a year passes without the controversy and criticisms of the exercise with parents accusing the GES and school heads of failing to place their wards in first choice or second choice schools, despite making the grades.
This year is no different as parents; guardians have turned to the media to resolve what they claim is the injustice done their wards by the Computer Placement Exercise.
Some have called for the scrapping of the placement exercise which started seven years ago to replace the Manual System of Selection and Placement into Second Cycle Schools.
But in an interview with Joy News’ Dzifa Bampoh the General Secretary of CHASS Felix Essah-Hienu said the parents must be content with the placements, especially, when they the parents were responsible for the choices they made.
“The issue that we have to tell parents at this level is that they should accept the placement given them, because the schools were chosen not by the GES or the Ministry of Education. They were chosen by the candidates and the parents.
He said this year, like the previous year, there are six choices for the students, “so if you don’t get the first choice and you get the second choice or the fifth choice, you have to be content with that,” he said.
He added that school heads are ready and will begin admission process from Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
He advised prospective students to print out their placement forms on the internet and proceed to the schools to begin with the admission process.
CHASS early in the day had discussed with the GES issues to do with the school fees and other minor charges the school have to imposed on students.
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