{"id":3647,"date":"2022-03-17T05:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/problematic-pupil-and-teacher-attendance-whats-your-role-david-sengeh-minister-of-basic-education-asks"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:23:19","slug":"problematic-pupil-and-teacher-attendance-whats-your-role-david-sengeh-minister-of-basic-education-asks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/problematic-pupil-and-teacher-attendance-whats-your-role-david-sengeh-minister-of-basic-education-asks","title":{"rendered":"\u201cProblematic pupil and teacher attendance: what\u2019s your role?\u201d \u2013 David Sengeh, Minister of basic education asks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Yesterday, Sierra Leone\u2019s minister of basic education, David Sengeh made several unannounced visits to schools in the capital Freetown, to gain first-hand experience of teacher and pupil absenteeism, and was shocked to find that most of the schools visited recorded high levels of pupil and teacher absenteeism. And these are some of the best schools in the country.<\/p>\n

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the government\u2019s Free Quality Education programme, paid for largely by the international community, there is still massive resistance to the culture change needed, if the government is to turn around poor standards of education across the country.<\/p>\n

And if what the minister saw yesterday is representative of schools across the country, then Sierra Leone is in deep trouble with regards the government\u2019s promise to develop the country\u2019s human resource for sustained economic growth.<\/p>\n

This is what the minister wrote on Facebook after his visits yesterday:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not an angry post. It\u2019s a very sad post. Today, I dropped in at 4 schools: FAWE Girls School in Grafton, Prince of Wales, Freetown Secondary School for Girls and Methodist Girls High School to understand the reported high levels of absenteeism in our schools by both teachers and pupils (particularly those in SSS3). The irony is that we have 206,000 candidates who are supposedly in SSS 3 (including repeaters) registered to take the WASSCE Exams starting in a month or so.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt my alma mater Prince of Wales, I was sad to learn that the students in Arts haven\u2019t had more than a handful of math lessons for 2 terms. In this second term, no one has shown up. Their Agricultural Science teacher had also never showed up. I called him in the class, and he had nothing to say but that he\u2019ll show up in the future. The Principal was with me on the tour, and he said he\u2019s issued this teacher a query already. I am surprised \u2013 what happened after that? What did they Board do? Are they aware? How did we give up on these kids before they even had a chance?<\/p>\n

\u201cAt FSSG, the Principal showed me the teachers\u2019 attendance list, and several are often absent. To my dismay, she said she\u2019d given them query letters approved by the Board, and those same teachers had been transferred to other schools by TSC. What?!! FSSG is one of our schools that moved to a single shift, and I learned that most pupils and teachers (less than a third) make it before 8:30 am to school.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Methodist Girls, I was told by pupils in Arts again that their teachers, including Math and Health Science, do not show up. In another stream, the English teacher does not or hasn\u2019t shown up for this term. How do we expect the pupils to pass?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for pupils, attendance was dismal. The SSS2 and SSS1 classes are well attended, but SSS3 classes are empty. What are parents doing? What is the PTA doing? What are Principals doing? What are Boards doing? If we said only those who attend 80% of the time can take exams, what would happen?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to transform our country until everyone plays their own part at home, in schools, in classrooms, etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was sad, I was also hopeful. There were teachers who taught multiple classes every period every day. There\u2019s the workshop teacher at POW working with an alumni pupil to invent new products. There were the Principal and Vice Principal at FSSG who stayed late working on fixing issues in their school. And there are pupils at POW and Girls\u2019 School who were teaching each other when teachers don\u2019t show up. There was that one pupil who had on a mask in a class of 40 without. Those people give us hope. We need everyone to be like them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what?<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI asked the pupils to write a letter to their Principals complaining teachers who dont show up. I asked Principals to write more query letters. And I thanked those teachers who I met in class even when their colleagues are awol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have provided those Principals computers to submit attendance of teachers but they dont use it. We have trained teachers on Code of Conduct but they don\u2019t listen. We have trained all Boards of Governors about their roles, but they don\u2019t act.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will go back to the drawing board. At my senior management meeting today, we set up a sub committee including our Directors and Chief Education Officer to bring us ideas for intervention. We love system challenges and we are determined to address this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will stop at nothing\u2026\u201d (End of the minister\u2019s statement).<\/p>\n

But is there a correlation between the worsening economic crisis in the country and low teacher and pupil morale and absenteeism?<\/b><\/p>\n

Although the government increased teachers\u2019 salary a few years ago and most teachers do get paid every month, there is widespread feeling of discontent across households, with the rising inflation and crippling cost of living which many in Sierra Leone say are causing serious economic hardship for families.<\/p>\n

Also, the issue of low morale across Sierra Leone\u2019s education system is the result of decades of underfunding and politicisation of education provision, in a country where most people do not believe that education is a passport to improved standard of living as millions of people with some form of education qualification languish in unemployment and poverty.<\/p>\n

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