End Free SHS Protocol Placement: Ensure Fair Placement for All

The use of protocol slots for nearly everything Ghanaians must benefit from has made many lose hope in our systems and democratic processes. The introduction of free SHS protocol placement in the education sector has led to abuse.

Stop Free SHS protocol placement; every BECE candidate deserves a fair placement chance

It is time to stop free SHS protocol placement because every BECE candidate deserves fair placement chances.

End Free SHS Protocol Placement. Exam candidates should have equal opportunities to choose any school of their choice. It is ethically wrong for influential individuals, politicians, and others in advantageous positions to place their wards in specific schools of preference, not because their wards deserve such placements.

All candidates should benefit from fair placement if they all took the same examination under the same conditions and rules, had their scripts marked fairly, and used the same marking schemes, without any personalities receiving special treatment.

Frequently, candidates on the protocol list do not outperform their peers. Our politicians, politically appointed individuals, and those in high authority often receive these benefits at the expense of the general public and to the detriment of other candidates.

Although the school selection and placement process for this year has not yet begun, Ghanaians are likely compiling lists of students under the guise of a protocol list.

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This is not right. Regrettably, in addition to using the protocol, some individuals also sell these slots for monetary compensation to others.

If we provide equal opportunities for our learners, we are better off. Students on the protocol list frequently receive placements beyond Category B schools. Most of these students end up in Category A schools, a placement they would not typically receive if the placement systems were free from protocol manipulations.

The decision of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to offer more placement opportunities to public school candidates to the disadvantage of students who sit the BECE as private school registered candidates is another form of protocol that indirectly hides the inefficiencies of public schools and their poor performances.

Today, parents of wards in private schools are shifting them to public basic schools due to the belief that, even with a poor BECE score as a public school registered candidate, their ward is more likely to secure a good school placement than a BECE graduate with a strong grade who took the exam as a private school registered candidate.

For this reason, a number of private schools and GNAPS have consistently advocated for the removal of the policy that favours public school BECE graduates over their private school counterparts.

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The two concerning forms of school placement protocols, mentioned above, are undermining our school placement systems and distorting the decision-making process by favouring politicians, their associates, and students in public schools over those from less privileged backgrounds and graduates of private schools.

If your ward is going to write the BECE in a private school, you must be worried as a parent, just as if you do not have any links or protocol slots in government.

It’s time to abandon school placement protocols and embrace the true nature of the so-called computerized school selection process. A computerized system for placing candidates in schools must be free from all forms of human intervention and interrogation. To ensure ethical construction and equitable placement of all candidates in schools based on their scores and aggregates, it must also be devoid of any coding strings.

Investigations carried out by the likes of Manasseh Azuri on the rot that goes on during school placement have been pushed to the bins, with no one in authority facing any form of punitive action. After releasing the Full video on SHS computerised placement for sale nothing actually happened and the systems have not changes.

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Clearly, the masses are at a disadvantage, and soon every placement will become a protocol placement.

Stop Free SHS protocol placement because every BECE candidate deserves a fair placement chance. End Free SHS Protocol Placement and Ensure Fair Placement for All BECE Candidates.

2 responses to “End Free SHS Protocol Placement: Ensure Fair Placement for All BECE Candidates”

Kwabena Ogyam
September 17, 2024
I strongly agree to this publication as a Ghanaian parent of concern. In every country all over the world, the private sector regardless of the industry plays a key role. The government alone cannot carry the burden of education and that is how come arrangements have been made for private schools to operate. Taking your child to private schools eases the pressure on government and to my believe, such people who take their children to private schools should be hailed than to be punished but that is not the case of Ghana. My question is, if the public schools are not performing, should the performing private school students suffer for inefficiencies and incompetence created by someone else? I dont understand the kind of thought that went into this decision. I personally believe that government should stop hiding behind poor performance from the public schools and find proper solutions to poor performance in public schools. Again, the said quota for protocols need to be cancelled with immediate effect since those protocols are being sold to Ghanaians for their monetary gains.
We live in a country that fairness is non existence and we should know that this attitude of our politicians will bear “fruits” one day that they can taste it themselves. A word to a wise…
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Kwabena Ogyam
September 17, 2024
I strongly agree to this publication as a Ghanaian parent of concern. In every country all over the world, the private sector regardless of the industry plays a key role. The government alone cannot carry the burden of education and that is how come arrangements have been made for private schools to operate. Taking your child to private schools eases the pressure on government and to my believe, such people who take their children to private schools should be hailed than to be punished but that is not the case of Ghana. My question is, if the public schools are not performing, should the performing private school students suffer for inefficiencies and incompetence created by someone else? I dont understand the kind of thought that went into this decision. I personally believe that government should stop hiding behind poor performance from the public schools and find proper solutions to poor performance in public schools. Again, the said quota for protocols need to be cancelled with immediate effect since those protocols are being sold to Ghanaians for their monetary gains.
We live in a country that fairness is non existence and we should know that this attitude of our politicians will bear “fruits” one day that they cant taste it themselves. A word to a wise…
Reply

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