P.I.P RE-INTRODUCED

Friday, January 20, 2006

About four years ago, the Sekyere administration started what was to be known as Post-Inspection Prep which was organised right after house inspections on Saturdays.

This was to ensure that the students learned very hard even on Saturdays because students had a lot of extra-curricular activties on that day and therefore exhaustion took the better part of them leading to their inabilty to have a glimpse of just the cover of a book.

Students sleep during Entertainment period on Saturday nights so it will not be surprising if they sleep during prep time on Saturdays. This senior was found deep asleep on the sound system during the Mr. Prempeh competition last term.

With that in mind, the PIP as it was called started with all the vigour on earth when later the Miah-led administration realised it was not helping as students slept during the "PIP." The PIP was cancelled later on because the students were not learning anything.

It could be recalled that the Owusu-Achiaw administration cancelled a host of activities on Saturdays on campus last year as the students were not learning on that day. This term happens to be a "term of action" and as a result the PIP has been re-introduced to help the students learn a lot so as to come out with flying colours in the newly-introduced WASSCE.

According to the prefects, measures are being put in place to ensure a more effective PIP and we hope this is not going to end there.

The idea of a weekend prep was introduced by former Assistant Headmaster Twumasi during the Sackey administration. He introduced Sunday morning prep held after church service. That Sunday prep was later abolished because it became a sleeping session for students. The kente cloth students wore on Sundays were removed and used as pillows all throughout the classrooms as students slept soundly instead of learning.

Prep on weekends have never worked at Sofoline.