About 200 classrooms in the Kwahu North District (Afram Plain) are without teachers. The situation has made teaching and learning very difficult resulting in very poor performance of the students, the District Director of Education, Mr. Gabriel Adu, has disclosed. At an emergency meeting with the Eastern Regional Minister, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, his deputy, Baba Jamaal and heads of department at Donkorkrom, Mr. Boamah mentioned the affected areas as Schools on the Dwarf Islands, Dugya Islands, Bradan and Twerafasour communities. He said that some of the schools have a maximum of three teachers from Class one to Junior High. In most cases the teachers are untrained (pupil teachers). Only the head-teacher is a trained teacher. Citing Twerafasour primary school as an example, he said the headteacher teaches classes one to six and has to combine the classes to enable him to at least, "teach something" and therefore appealed to the authorities of the Ghana Education Service to post more teachers to the area. In another development, Mr. Robert Osei Forson, headmaster of the Donkorkrom Agric Senior High School has complained of the behavior of some parents towards the payment of their wards' school fees. "Some of the parents bring food-stuffs in payment in for their wards school fees instead of physical cash or banker's draft." He said the non-payment of fees had put a huge financial strain on the authorities of the school. Source: Ghanaian Times