Double-track system has led to several teenage pregnancies – Mahama

Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has expressed worry over the rise in teenage pregnancy as a result of the double-track system.

He has therefore pledged to review free SHS and cancel the obnoxious double track that has made education a joke in the country.

Apart from double track, the former president has given assurance of ensuring quality food is provided for students.

“We are going to improve the feeding and quality of the food our children get. We are going to give the feeding grants directly to the schools to purchase the food and the headmasters and the Bursar will go to the local market and buy the beans from here, the groundnut paste from there.

Then, also, we are going to cancel the obnoxious double-track system. Our children must all go to school at the same time and vacate at the same time. We don’t want our children to go to school and come and stay home for three months. By the time they will go back, they’ve forgotten everything they’ve taught them. Some of our daughters get pregnant and destroy their lives completely so we will finish the e-blocks, we will continue the facilities in the existing schools so that we can create more space for our children. So that all of them can go to school together and all of them can vacate together”.

John Dramani Mahama debunked claims that he has intentions to cancel Free SHS, indicating that his position has always been to review it in order to make it better.

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