About 75 per cent of pupils in Akorabo-Kukua and Supresu in the Suhum/Kraboa Coaltar District in the Eastern Region are withdrawn by their parents from school to sell on market days.

Assembly Member for the area, J.E. Tettevi, who is also the headteacher of Kukua Local Authority Primary School, disclosed to the District Chief Executive (DCE), Michael Kofi Mensah, when he addressed members of the Akorabo Area Council at Akorabo last week.

He said the parents withdraw their children to help them on market days during school period without the knowledge of their teachers.

This, Tettevi said, has resulted in the falling standards of education in the area adding that, “the same parents blame the teachers whenever their children fail in their examinations.

The trend, he said, has so much affected the standard of education that no pupil has ever passed the BECE examination since the introduction of the JSS concept.