Is it true that Mr. Twumasi Amponsah (Joe Expensive) wanted to turn
Prempeh College into a mixed school with Serwah House serving as the
female house?
The new acting headmaster started laughing but Nana Duah-Gyamfi
(1956-62) was very sad to hear this question. He was sad because he is
also an old boy and there are at least four other old boys who are now
teaching there. "How can they accept such a move?", he screamed.
He said there are about six "Science Resource Centers" in Kumasi of
which Prempeh College is one. These schools, Prempeh, Owass, Amass,
Yagss, St.Louis and so on are now almost science schools with well
equiped laboratories.
These centers do not only serve the host schools but rather serve other
secondary schools in Ashanti Region. The Science Resource Center has a
yellow bus for the only purpose of conveying science students from other
schools to Sofoline. Prempeh College cannot use this bus, for example to
carry yams from the market or to attend funeral at Kete Krachi during
Mr. Atiemo's time.
The students who come to use the labs are from mixed and single sex
schools. There are some masters who are there only for the science
resource center and even do not feel themselves as Prempeh College
masters.
There is now a "continious assessment" in the senior secondary sector
which demands that every student who fails the final examintions should
try it again only at his or her former school. All the schools are
allowed to organize remedial classes to prepare their "Bangla" students
for the second or third time. At Sofoline, the remedial school was at
first only for Prempah former students. But the Ghana Education Service
(GES) advised the various schools to also take students from other
schools.
This idea is somehow reasonable because it relieves parents whose wards
attended schools in other towns. At Prempeh, the remedial school takes
place in the afternoon from 2:30 pm to 5:oopm at Katanga. Mr. Okoh and
Nana Duah-Gyamfih's houses serve as places of convenience to the girls
(Chicks) who take part.
As I saw it, Prempeh collge has not been turned into a mixed school and
as such Serwah House is not a female ward.
My part of the Prempeh College Mosque story ends!!
