Angel Carbonu asserts Ghana’s education crisis due to politicians’ children attending private schools
Mr. Angel Carbonu, the President of the National Graduate Association of Teachers (NAGRAT), has expressed concerns about the state of Ghana’s education system, attributing its deterioration to the fact that many politicians do not enroll their children in public schools.
According to Carbonu, politicians often choose to send their children to the best schools in the country or even abroad, which leads to a lack of attention to the challenges faced by public schools.
In an interview on OKAY FM, he highlighted that politicians are well aware of the issues that public schools encounter, but because these problems do not directly affect them, they tend to disregard them.
“They don’t enroll their children in public basic schools, so they don’t care what goes on there or the challenges pupils have to surmount. They know the problems; they have the intelligence and security people. The question is that they don’t care,” he stated.
Carbonu emphasized that if a prominent person were to pass away in a certain community, the government would quickly allocate funds for infrastructure improvement. However, the same urgency is not seen when it comes to addressing issues in deprived areas, especially schools.
He expressed concern about the shift in priorities within society and called for increased attention to public education. He suggested that there needs to be agitation and a review of the GetFund (Ghana Education Trust Fund) to ensure that it is used as intended and not diverted for other purposes.
Carbonu’s remarks highlight the disparity in educational opportunities between public and private schools in Ghana and the need for a more equitable and effective education system that caters to all children, regardless of their parents’ social status.
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