Nuaso (E/R), Feb. 11, GNA - The Parent/Teacher Association of Manya Krobo Secondary School has presented a 58-seater Tata bus valued at 745.8 million cedis to the school at a PTA meeting at Nuaso on Saturday. The Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Mr Kwame Ampofo-Twumasi, also inaugurated a 146 million-cedi girls' dormitory built by the PTA.

He said the government had awarded a contract for the upgrading of the school into a model school.

The Chairman of the PTA, Mr Foster S. Argu, said the PTA contributed 156 million cedis towards the conversion of the abandoned dining hall into classrooms for the reactivation of the Business Department.

Mr Foster said the PTA also contributed towards the gravelling of the road from the main gate to the school and the provision of accommodation for about 80 girls.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr Charles Darko, appealed for the construction of bungalows for teachers on the compound to help maintain discipline especially in the night. The headmaster of the school, Mr Ebenezer Narh Sackitey, said some girls nearly burnt down the girls' dormitory when they tried to do some electrical connections.

He said it would cost about 20 million cedis for the fault to be rectified and those students involved would be made to pay for the repairs. Mr Sackitey appealed to parents to help maintain discipline in the school by desisting from calling on opinion leaders in the community to plead on their behalf when their wards misbehaved and were punished.