Maabang Sec Tec makes strides in WASCE despite challenges


Maabang Senior High and Technical School (MASTECH) in the Ahafo-Ano North District of Ashanti has made a giant stride in the 2016 West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination despite the numerous challenges facing the school. 

Out of the 221 candidates presented, 209 candidates qualified for tertiary institutions, representing 94 percent.  

At a press conference at Maabang to highlight the performance of the School, the Chairman of the Parent Teacher Association, Mr. Kyei Sarpong, said the overall percentage of students that passed is 99.5 percent. 

The PTA Chairman was full of praise to both teaching and non-teaching staff for the good job done.   

According to him, even though the school lacks basic facilities that help to promote teaching and learning, the tutors executed their responsibilities very well leading to achievement of the feat. 

He mentioned lack of teacher's bungalows, dining hall, assembly hall, library, inadequate classrooms as some of the major challenges facing the school.  

He revealed that most of the tutors have to commute from Kumasi and other faraway places to come to school. 

He allayed the fears of parents and guardians whose wards are in the school not to be perturbed by the situation since they will receive quality tuition to enable them pass their WASCE. 

Maabang Senior High school was established in 1991 during President Rawlings administration as a community day school which was aimed at enabling the youth at Maabang and its environs which are predominately cocoa growing communities to have access to quality education. 

However, the school since its establishment decades ago, has not seen any major face-lift and is battling with  infrastructure problems with the increasing number of students Mr. Kyei Sarpong said successive governments including the current one with all the massive infrastructure going on in the education sector have neglected the school.  

"Even the building which was used to start the school was built in 1975 during the regime of the Military junta led by General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong" he lamented. 

He noted that the only GETFund Assembly Hall project started during President Kufuor's Administration has been abandoned for the past nine years and weeds have taken it over, while the school struggles to get a place to hold school gatherings. 

The PTA Chairman was however quick to add that the school has only enjoyed one government project since its establishment, and that was a six-unit classroom block during the tenure of President Mills when the Emergency Classroom Project was implemented.  

He added that MASTECH got a six classroom block other schools were provided with between 12 and 18 unit classroom blocks.  

Mr. Kyei Sarpong used the opportunity to make a passionate appeal to NGOs, telecommunication companies, the Diplomatic Corp and other corporate bodies to go to the aid of the school.



GBC