Poor classroom infrastructure is among the major challenges impeding the smooth delivery of lessons at the Fakwasi Junior High School in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality of the Bono East Region.

Teachers in the school say the situation has over the years affected enrollment with school going children dropping out of school due to the lack of adequate furniture to sit on.

"The school buildings for the JHS has several cracks all over and it possess a great threat to us the teachers and pupils here. Even once, there was a time one of the beams collapsed and it nearly hit some of the students and we alerted the Assembly man and he came and helped and they reconstructed that place," Awumbila Solomon said.

With cracked walls, dusty floors, loose door and window frames and foul-smelling animal droppings characterizing the school facility, the lives of both pupils and teachers continue to be in danger.

Due to these and many other challenges, some of the teachers posted to the school seek for reposting and leave eventually thereby leaving the school with fewer teachers.

Many of the pupils are without uniforms, footwears and most importantly books to write in.

Teachers here say the lack of adequate furniture has contributed to a large number of the pupils dropping out of school.

Kyerewaa Hamilton, also a teacher in the schools said "we don't have furnitures for the children, then the floor of the classrooms are bad and because the floor is not good and we lack furnitures, the children don't want to come to school because when they come, they don't have a place to sit. Some would perch with their colleagues and due to Covid-19, they are afraid to perch now".

She further noted that some of the community folks have converted the school into a hotel at night thereby contributing to the numerous difficulties facing the school.

"Some of the members in the community have turned it into a hotel, some bring their girlfriends here and do all sort of things. Then because they've broken down the doors and windows, the animals now have chance to enter into it and anytime we come to school, we spend so much time cleaning the animal droppings," she added.

Aside from this, the absence of a potable drinking water is also affecting the health of both pupils and teachers in the school.

Awumbila Solomon said "the water challenges is one of the main problems facing both the community and and school. Most of the teachers here are suffering from typhoid fever and it is due to them drinking from the river. The river called Tanfi, that's the main source of water here".

The teachers say they are not happy with the situation as it continously affect academic work of the school.

They, therefore, are appealing to government, NGOs and philanthropists to come to their aid by supporting them with new classroom facilities.