The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), has threatened not to reopen schools on the scheduled date of January 5, 2022, if the government fails to pay all outstanding arrears and supply food to the schools.
The decision is contained in a resolution made by the National Executive Council at an emergency meeting in Kumasi on December 23, 2021.
The meeting was to discuss what appears to be chronic challenges facing secondary schools in the country as a result of the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy by the government.
The Council cited erratic supply of food to schools and financial constraints; delays in the release of monies to schools and also the releases that are generally done in bits as major challenges making it extremely difficult for effective management of the schools.
They added that these among others are having a serious effect on quality education.
The National Executive Council of CHASS, therefore, resolved that if, by the 31st of this month the Ghana Education Service (GES) and by extension government fails to release the full complement of outstanding monies and food supplies to schools for the first Semester for forms one and two and other Semesters which are in arrears, schools will not be opened for the 2021/2022 academic year.