Tonkoase (Ash), Nov. 12, GNA- Due to the shortage of teachers in the Adansi South District of Ashanti, teachers of Tonkoase District Assembly Junior High School (JHS) are now doubling as primary school teachers in the town.

This came to light during the School Performance and Appraisal Monitoring (SPAM) meeting at Tonkoase on Friday. It was attended by teachers and officials from the Adansi South District Education Directorate to discuss the performance of students in this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Mr Owusu Agyemang, assemblyman for Tonkoase and headmaster of the JHS, disclosed that the primary school had no trained teachers to teach the over 600 pupils in the school. He said the primary school has only three untrained teachers, which has affected the performance of the pupils. He said since he was acting as the head of the primary school, he has pleaded with some of the JHS teachers to assist the three untrained teachers.

Mr Agyemang said all the efforts being made by him to make the Ghana Education Service (GES) to post teachers to the school has not been successful.

He renewed his appeal to the GES to post trained teachers to the primary school to help raise the educational standards of the pupils. He called on the Adansi South District Assembly to provide teachers with accommodation to attract more of them to the area. Mr J.A. Afiamoah, Akotreso Circuit Supervisor, gave the assurance that his outfit would do all it could to ensure that more teachers were posted to the town to help bridge the high pupil-teacher ratio.