Common Sense Could Have Saved Free SHS, mahama.

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has said government wouldn’t have needed to present the current twofold track framework and battle with its usage if President Nana Akufo-Addo and his organization had applied sound judgment during the arranging phases of the Free Senior High School strategy.

As per him, the decision government could have finished the 200 network day schools which the NDC initiated during their residency of office to explain the difficulties full of the twofold track framework which is as of now running in Senior High Schools.

“Our Constitution says that any legislature that takes over from a former government must proceed with the projects and tasks of the administration that it took over from… And on the off chance that the Nana Akufo-Addo organization utilized arranging and good judgment, at that point what they ought to have done was to take the 200 new network day schools and quick track and finish them so we won’t have the twofold track that we are presently experiencing”, Mr Mahama said when he paid a politeness approach ManWe Naa on Thursday, September 3.

The NDC flagbearer vowed to finish the 200 network day school ventures when he’s casted a ballot over into power in the forthcoming December surveys to illuminate the issue of the twofold track framework in second cycle foundations.

He clarified that the NDC began free SHS in 2015 with only day understudies and due to the staggering numbers recorded at that point, government chose to construct the network day schools to destroy the hazard.

Previous President Mahama stated, “We dropped all school expenses for youngsters who were day understudies in senior secondary school and in 2016, we enlisted 140,000 boarding understudies on the bursary framework yet we realized that with the usage of free SHS, there would have been an expansion in the quantity of kids coming to auxiliary school and, thus, from 2015, we began a forceful strategy of expanding and growing the foundation in the current optional schools yet we understood that anyway much we extended the foundation, the kids would overpower the current auxiliary schools”.

“In this way, we said ‘alright, we should fabricate 200 new auxiliary schools so all the kids can approach optional school instruction’, and that is the reason we began all these network day schools,” he included.

Yet, the NPP government surrendered these formative ventures when they came into office, Mahama pushed.

He likewise vowed to fix the holes in the Free SHS strategy to make it work better.