Jamasi (Ash), April 23, GNA – Two female candidates of the Ashanti School for the Deaf at Jamasi in the Sekyere South District have failed to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) because they are pregnant.
Mr Kofi Oti-Frimpong, the Headmaster, said one other student, William Oppong, dropped out of school before the start of the examination.
He said the school presented 29 candidates, made up of 19 boys and 10 girls for the 2012 BECE compared with the previous year’s total of 46 where they scored 100 percent passes.
Mr Oti-Frimpong made this known to the Ashanti Regional Special Education Coordinator, Mr Stephen Gyasi Debrah, who was in the school to monitor the examination.
The school has a population of 542 pupils, 200 of them are being supported with scholarship from the “LILIAN Fund”, a Catholic Organization in Germany.
The Headmaster said they were grateful to the Chief Executive Officer of Tobinco Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Nana Samuel Amo Tobin, for donating an amount of GH¢10,000.00 and food items valued at about GH¢4,000.00 in support of the school.
Added to these, was also free medical screening of the pupils and staff.
Mr Gyasi-Debrah said he was impressed with the participation of the deaf and dumb in the examination.
