Private Education A lasting Treasure For every Ghanaian Child

Private Education  A lasting Treasure For every Ghanaian Child.

Religious and independent schools have been part of our country from the start. They give students a solid and well rounded education, they provide parents with alternatives to the government schools and they save taxpayers a ton of money.
In short ,private schools are good for students, good for families and good for Ghana.
Choosing a school for children is one of the most important decisions parent must make, for the parent of more than six million children, the choice is religious and independent schools ,make that choice for many reason, quality academics, an education that focuses on the whole person, spiritual and ethnical values, caring teachers, a safe environment, supportive communities, individual attention and much more.
Parents want to give their children the things that matter most in life not just stylish clothes or the latest gadgets but lasting treasures love, values, purpose , responsibilities, a sense of being rooted in life and connected to it's source children only what really counts.
We hear a great deal of talks these days about having kids master standards in reading and math, of course those skills are important and in private schools their mastery is expected ,but learning maths formulas and decoding words are not the goals of education but path. To  a goal is the formation of the whole person moral, spiritual, cultural , academics, aesthetic, physical and when constructing a beautiful puzzle its always best to have full picture in mind.
But these days some schools are loosing sight of the whole picture while obsessing about particular pieces . A close family member taught in a public chapter school last year , the school's very survival depended on whether students met adequate yearly progress on standardized test in two subjects ;reading and maths. So you can imagine where teachers put their energy and focus, what's more the new common core standards that many states have adopted for public schools suggests more of the same because those standards not to mention  the state assessments that will measure mastery of those standards deal exclusively with reading and maths.
It's as if the whole lifespan  has been sacrificed for a couple of parts.
Private schools do more than  teach  children to  decipher sounds and apply formulas because a fully rounded person is more than the sum of those skills, sure we teach maths and reading and every assessment shows our students well exceed the national average but we do also cover Arts, Music ,Science, Social   Studies, Physics and in most private schools religion.
Why are we here? what is our responsibility to others and the society ?What is our ultimate destiny ?
Those are some of the issues tackled in religious and independent schools , just look at the mission statement of private schools or better yet visit  one .
Conclusively private schools help provide parent's children with lasting treasure.
By Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah
Executive Director
(GNACOPS)
    &
A Seasoned
Educational consultant ( GEKAD)