Religious Education Or Scientific Education: Who Guarantees Evans Future?

A mother of a male student, Evans who sat for the 2023 edition of the BECE and got placed into Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC – Legon) citing church belief says she will not permit her ward to attend the senior high school.

According to a social media post by the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (EduWatch), Kofi Asare, the BECE graduate denied admission to PRESEC by the mother was one of the best students in his Junior High School (JHS) at Tema.

He further wrote ” A brilliant boy called Evans has been placed in Presec, Legon. He is one of the best in his JHS at Tema.

His JHS teachers have already shopped the boy’s prospectus but failed to convince the mother to enrol him. Social welfare at Tema is aware and involved.

The mother will not enrol the boy because her new faith does not approve of education. Immediately you call to convince her, you receive a block. I am in touch with her on my other lines and with my other voices and names.

I hear she attends a church called “God’s Kingdom at Last”. I saw a handsome young man as the leader on Facebook. I am struggling to establish contact with the church leader.

While I respect their faith, I believe I can have a conversation with the church leader and intercede for the boy. Someone here can also talk directly with the church leader for us.

It’s been two weeks of persuasion. Let’s hope it works.

Compulsion through the law courts should be the last option. It can take forever to litigate on matters like this, as we want the boy in school in early January, yet have no idea where he is being kept.
Any help? Please DM!
Ghana Education Service, please preserve the boy’s placement. He will surely report next year”.

But in a turn of events, Mr. Kofi Asare wrote another post which involved the stakeholders of education having an interest in the matter and he said “I have been in touch with the Minister of Education on Evans’ case. He is personally intervening.

The Chief Director of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has also been in touch, together with the Department of Children.
More anon!..
It is believed that through his involvement, Evans would be allowed to go to school and that wouldn’t be dependent on the religious faith of the mother but on the trigger of the law.

By Sedrick Robert Zu