According to the Ghana Education Service (GES), management plans to reevaluate when the Senior High Schools (SHS) reopen for first-year students.
The limited time parents had to make preparations was a concern raised by Pre-Tertiary Teacher Unions, according to Cassandra Twum Ampofo, the GES's public relations officer.
The worries stem from the November 28 release of the Computerized Schools Selection Process, with the expectation that SHS students will begin classes on December 4.
She responded to the JoyNews concern by saying that her organization had been publishing the academic calendar for second-cycle institutions for a long time.
They therefore assumed that parents were ready. They would, however, reconsider their options for handling the circumstance.
"We had previously released the academic calendar prior to the placement announcement, so the first December for first-year students was already scheduled.
Therefore, as a parent, if you were aware that your child would be attending a boarding house, you are at least working within that time frame. We knew that preparations had begun, even though we were just waiting for the school placement to be announced.
"However, once they have provided us with this feedback, management will review it, and any conclusions drawn from it will be shared with the public," she added.
In order to give parents enough time to prepare, Dr. Peter Anti-Partey, Executive Director of the Institute of Education Studies, strongly suggests that the GES postpone the reopening until early in the upcoming year.
Make the necessary adjustments so that everyone will feel somewhat better. You can't push it to the next week, so I'm not sure how they're going to handle this. The students will be spending roughly one week on campus if you move it to the following week.
It doesn't help that some of them will be traveling, so you spend a week in school before returning home for the holidays. It is ineffective.
In order to ensure that everyone is ready for it, he stated, "I believe that maybe the best option will be to either maintain this or move the reopening of the first years to early next year."