Chair Shortage Impedes Learning Activities at a Government-run School in Grand Bassa

GRAND BASSA – Normal learning activities at a government-run school, the Juah Town Public School located in Grand Bassa County’s electoral District #2, is yet again being impeded by the acute shortage of chairs and lack of supply of test books, Rural Reporters News Network (RRNN) has gathered.

This embarrassing situation has persisted for four years including this year, according to Juah Town Public School Principal, Obediah Johnson, who disclosed that the inadequacy of chairs for pupils is adversely affecting attendance and is greatly impeding the learning process at the institution since the commencement of academic activities this year.

Although the school has 150 registered students this year, Principal Johnson narrated that scarcity in seating capacity is preventing many students from attending classes.

Juah Town Public School, an institution at the elementary level was established in 2001, but for this school year, some classrooms at the institution are empty and cannot accommodate students at the moment because they lack chairs, according to Principal Johnson.

Despite annual reports from the school to the Ministry of Education reflecting such an appalling situation, it continues unabated, as registered pupils of the school and other school-going-age children in the area bear the brunt of such dismal administrative performance on the part of education authorities.

In a related development, Principal Johnson has alarmed that out of a total of nine teachers, the school currently has just two teachers on the government’s payroll, a situation that he lamented to have negatively impacted the institution.

However, he disclosed that Senate President Pro Tempore and Grand Bassa County Senator, Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, is currently bankrolling the rest of the teachers who are not on the government’s payroll.

“If Liberia will have to be a better place for all, education should be treated holistically,” the Juah Town Public School principal emphasized.