Education Minister Blames Parents For School Placement Errors

The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has laid the blame for errors that accompany the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) on nonchalant parents.

He notes that the outputs of the computer depend on the inputs it is fed with and thereby ruled the CSSPS perfect.

According to him, the challenge emerges from parents who fail to attend meetings for the school selection processes. He observes that some students go through the process on their own and thereby select distant schools for compulsory day school sections.

“Before the placement exercise, we engage in wide public sensitization on the various media stations in the districts to forestall errors. The computer processes the placements according to our inputs. Sometimes parents are nonchalant about the choices and selections their wards make and so their wards go through the selection process on their own,” he said while addressing the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs on December 13, 2023.

That notwithstanding, the Minister noted that a remedy has been instituted for such errors. He said Solution Centres have been established at the regional education offices for such errors to be remedied.

“We have established solution centres. All those who have been given schools far from their homes may visit their Regional Education office which will help change the school.”

He was responding to a question posed by Adansihene, Opagyakotwere Bonsra Afriyie II, that sought answers to situations where candidates are placed in distant schools away from their homes and made day students.