The Ghana Education Service has cautioned heads of schools against denying pregnant girls the opportunity to write their Basic Education Certificate Examination when they turn up at the centres.
According to Public Relations Office of the Ghana Education Service, Reverend Jonathan Bettey, being pregnant does not bar young girls from writing the exams.
There has been many reports in the past of pregnant girls being denied the opportunity to write certain papers at some centres during the Basic Education Certificate Examination but Rev. Bettey has described the act as wrong and an unacceptable practice.
If you are pregnant, the pregnancy will you deter you from writing the exams….provided you will feel comfortable we don’t have any problem but they will all be under protect.
Speaking to Univers news, Rev. Bettey said, the Ghana Education Service has engaged with heads of schools to avoid preventing students from writing the exams because they owe fees.
We’ve spoken with headmasters, headteachers against those practices that every arrangement to collect school fees of whatever levy that the students might be owing the school should have been done earlier before the commencement of the exams. It should be durign the examination where a child will be entering examination hall with that trauma.
He added that although the service is not expecting such incident, it is ready to deal with any school head who goes against the practice.
By: Jonas Nyabor/Radio Univers 105.7MHZ
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