Kumasi, March 1, GNA- Twenty-three Kumasi High School (KUHIS) final-year students who allegedly misappropriated their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) registration fees and could not be registered to write the examination, had been sacked from the school. Fifteen others, who flouted the school rules and regulations and sneaked out of campus to watch inter-schools athletic competition at the Kumasi Sports Stadium, have also been suspended for two weeks and consequently sacked from the boarding house to be day students after the punishment.

Mr Thomas Osei-Tutu, the headmaster, who announced this at the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meeting in Kumasi on Sunday, said four other students who were caught either smoking Indian hemp or bullying the junior students, have been dismissed outright from the school.

The school authorities, he said, have instituted various measures to instil discipline in the school to disabuse the minds of the public about "the wrong perception of indiscipline associated with the school".

He was, however, not happy about the attitude of some parents who frequently pleaded for pardon for their wards punished for flouting school rules and regulations and advised them to stop the practice. Mr Osei-Tutu said out of the 85 tutors in the school, only 10 are accommodated in five existing bungalows on the school campus and appealed to the PTA and the Ministry of Education to address the acute accommodation problem facing tutors.

The headmaster announced that 20 million cedis has been spent in the provision of sports kits and equipment in preparation towards the impending inter-schools athletic competition scheduled for Kumasi sports stadium on March 8 and 9 and called for the PTA's support.

Mr Osei Karikari, the PTA chairman asked the parents not only to co-operate and support the school authorities to instil discipline and moral values in the students but also contribute meaningfully to enhance the school's academic performance.