Parental interference stand in the way of Prempeh success
Friday, June 1, 2007
Abeiku Ghansah
Incensed that his son failed to earn a scholarship from Prempeh administrators despite topping his class at Prempeh every term,
an angry Mr. Jesse Ghansah, father of Prempeh contestant Abeiku Ghansah Abass, came to the campus today to not only
bar him from competing for Prempeh but also to take him away after the boy completed his final exams.
School authorities spent hours begging the father to change his opinion by allowing the boy to help Prempeh at this crucial time.
He presented a plane ticket which he has purchased for the boy for a foreign vacation trip they are taking.
Throughout the discussion he remained contemptuously deaf to the Headmaster's pleadings for mercy; the more we appealed, the more fractious he became.
Only a disruptive urgent
phone call to his cell phone prevented him from taking the boy home right away. He left to attend to his urgent matters in town but promised
to return to
take his son for the overseas vacation and nothing will stop him.
The Headmaster has pledged that the fight over Abeiku is not over and that the College will do everything to
appease the disenchanted father.
This development has provoked an outbreak of jitters among the Prempeh community because of the apparent
indispensability of the boy who is nearly infallible in quiz competitions.
Getting answers wrong is an exceedingly rare ocassion for him. Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw has emphatically
stated that: "Single-handedly, this boy can represent the school and bring the trophy on his own."
And the spectacle of Prof. Don standing by and wiping tears from his eyes encapsulated the boy's majestic
importance to Prempeh's fortunes this year. "We cannot lose, we can't lose with him. This boy doesn't make many mistakes and with him
we are destined to win it," Prof. Don said.
The enthusiasm and clamor surrounding Abeiku has caused the other contestants to ask the question "Are we not equally important?"
Mawuenya Y.H., one of the contestants, wondered why all the confidence was being shown in Abeiku alone when in fact, the diference in their class grade averages
is a mere 3% -- a difference that could be attributed to performances in non-science core subjects.
Prempeh.org palliated Mawuenya's worries by explaining to him that removal of Abeiku or ANY member of the trio from the team at this
stage only upset's the team's
equilibrium.
He understood.
Now it remains to be seen if we can change the parent's opinion.
