A mother has burst into tears, claiming her daughter has been placed in a school situated in a bush near a farm in Kasoa.
According to the mother, her daughter was placed in a school she selected, which she later discovered to be located on a farm near Kasoa.
She added that despite her efforts to secure a change, authorities informed her that the Senior High School placement for her ward could not be changed.
In the viral video, the mother, in tears, stated, “The school is in a bush, it is a farm, the school is located in Kasoa, Denkyira. I cannot let my daughter go and sleep there”.
When I got there, I did not even see anyone picking forms over there. After seeing how the school was, I did not even stand there. The car I boarded to the school charged me 90 cedis”.
Some Ghanaians have reacted to the news, saying, “This is the problem. Parents do not go to their wards’ school when the school selection is being done. They leave it to the child and the teachers, and when placement comes, they now want their children in schools they want and not where the children chose”.
“So we should cry or vote NPP in 2026, or what exactly do you want us to do?”, another added.
“Every place attractive today was made possible by others, so let the child go and lift the flag high. Maybe that’s where she can make a difference”, one X user added.
A netizen added, “But the school selection done by the parents and their ward, so if you are now crying, it means you never cared about the direction of your child”.
Meanwhile, Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, has said the confusion over the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) is because parents want top schools for their children.
According to Kofi Asare, there is enough space to accommodate all qualified candidates, but parents and their children are chasing top schools.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Channel One TV on Saturday, September 27, 2025, Kofi Asare stated, “The problems are not entirely new, apart from one which is new, a problem that was resolved in the past, I don’t know how it resurfaced this year. But generally, the issues relating to parents’ resentment of schools that the computer placed them in are normal, and they are going to be with us so long as we have inadequate resources as a lower-middle-income country”.
“The government of Ghana has adequate spaces to accommodate all 590k or so candidates who have qualified for placement. What the Government of Ghana does not have is the taste of all the 590k students. So there will definitely be some dis-equilibrium between the expectation of candidates, parents on one side and government’s ability to provide education to their taste,” he stressed.
Kofi Asare further explained, “Everybody wants to attend a good Category A and Category B school. You have about 700 plus Senior High Schools, and then you have people chasing about 100 schools. So these issues will continue to emerge so far as there are resource deficits”.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has boldly stated that he would not accept a student with an aggregate of 37 going into a Category A school.
According to the Education Minister, the ongoing SHS school placement process will be based solely on merit.
He emphasised that anyone found manipulating the system would be dealt with accordingly.
Haruna Iddrisu made this known while addressing concerns raised by some parents.
Watch the video below:
A mother burst into tears, claiming her daughter has been placed in a school situated on a farm near Kasoa.
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