Nana Adom Frimpong, headmaster of Toase secondary school, one of the leading schools in the Atwima district of Ashanti, has made a passionate appeal to individual philanthropists in society. He expects them to extend their benevolence to schools in the rural areas so as to bring them at par with schools in urban centres, and to ensure the total growth of the educational sector.

In this vein, he called on old students to set the pace in taking up projects in their alma mater to enhance the teaching and learning processes in their respective schools. Nana Adom Frimpong was briefing pressmen on the state of Toase secondary school at Nkawie.

He stated that government, through one district assembly, has chosen this school as one of the model schools in the region to be up-graded in infrastructure to befit its status as a secondary school. This effort by government, according to the headmaster, is being augmented by the hardworking parent/teacher association (PTA) which has contributed immensely to improve structures in the school. He mentioned some classroom blocks and a students’ hostel as monumental evidence of the PTA’s untiring efforts.

On admission of new students, Mr Frimpong observed that the picture was a replica of what obtained in other schools country-wide, where parents besiege schools to get their wards admitted. He stated that but for paucity of classroom blocks and a students’ hostel, the school would have admitted more than the 750 students it absorbed this year.

Frimpong further stressed that the school has marshalled adequate resources to expand structures to accommodate the new students.

He appealed to the assembly, as a matter of urgency, to provide the school with staff bungalows to enable students have easy assess to teachers.

Conducting newsmen round, Mr Frimpong called on the educational authorities to make available more computers to the school to ease the stress on the few the school has.

On discipline, the headmaster noted that both students and teachers are very much alive to the crusade, and have actively been contributing their quota to give meaning to the Vice-President’s initiative. This, he contended, is done through the enforcement of strict school rules and regulations, defaulters of which are subjected to strict disciplinary awards.

Mr Frimpong, meanwhile, made a clarion call to government to regulate the rather high and unchecked intake of pupils at the private schools, and eventually dumped on them. To the school management committee, the headmaster charged them to be proactive as the PTA for the school to benefit from their 7 years of existence.

He added that at a cost of ?65m, the school is erecting a fence wall on its boundaries to salvage some school land from encroachers and the activities of the burglars and intruders.

He called on the assembly and government to endeavour to provide the basic needs of all second-cycle schools in order to achieve what he called, “A Golden Age of Education”.