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NO ATTENTION FOR TECHNICAL STUDENTS. Previously much attention was given to the senior secondary schools. However technical education has been virtually left out. Production were efficient and accountable in various fields of endeavour in the country such as industries and companies. No improvement in these institutions are changing in senior secondary school. Research has indicated that about seventy five percent of students from this institution find it difficult to express themselves in English and solve simple mathematics and science. Why this? Simply because, the government has failed to initiate the technical and writing of core subjects in this institutions. Another big challenge is that after completing senior secondary school education you can enter tertiary education without much problem but for technical students upon successful distinctions or credits you have nowhere to go until you go back to write the senior secondary (SSS) certificate examination before making it to the tertiary schools. What’s more painful is that, most of the students are totally neglected after completing their courses. I therefore appeal to the government to take expedite and effective action to help writing of the core subjects in technical schools. By: Cosmos Awuah Mintah Ankamah 3B/C
WHAT ARE WE DOING? What are we doing to improve upon our education in Great SPATS? What are we doing to promote, uphold and define the great name of SPATS? What are we doing to indicate that Great SPATS is one of the best Technical Schools ever established in West Africa? Are we saying that the school does not belong to any of our family members hence, we are sitting idle? Are we also saying that others are not learning so we shall also not learn? Remember that time and tide wait for no man! With patriotism, loyalty and perseverance we will make SPATS forever great! God bless Ghana! God bless Great SPATS! By: Simpe – Asante 3E (a. k. a. OBOUR)
FIRST DAY IN SPATS First day in SPATS is like as if you are lost in a thick forest (wilderness), where everything seems to be new and different to you. You don’t know whether to smile or to cry. The welcome address for you in the school are weeding and scrubbing. Your Seniors will make you feel as if you are in hell. The studying alone will roughen your heart and harden your mind. And at end of it: the SPATS. Snakes (60% average grade) will bite you out if you don’t study hard. Life in Great SPATS is a challenge. Be strong and courageous! Then you will survive. By: Simpe – Asante 3E (a. k. a. OBOUR)
Topic: Should Co-Education Be Encouraged (DEBATE)? Co-education simply means a system of education where both male and female students learn, eat and do things together. Co-education must be completely eliminated in our educational set-ups considering the low level of sex education for the youth, which brings about social vices, like; teenage pregnancy, high rate of students’ dropout, moral decadence and improper academic performance. Mr. Chairman, there no gain saying that single sex education is the answer to this social canker. You may perhaps ask why? Let me tell you, a mixture of gun powder and fire in airtight circumstances bound to explode; co-education does not favor Ghanaians students/youths. Our position to the motion is based on the fact that backbiting, bitter squabbles, teasing and antagonism are intractable features in educational schools and to eliminate the bad features, co-education must be discouraged and replaced with single sex education. Mr. Chairman, academic competition is not keen in mixed schools. Because it has been noted that girls, in particular, tend to put up less challenges to their male counterpart. This goes to discourage the boys from putting up their best. Also some teachers award high marks to female students in mixed schools which in actual fact the female do not deserve. These teachers use this to achieve their diabolic desires. If the male students detect this vandalism is the result. Mr. Chairman, by creation and biological set up of human beings, each of the sexes have different characteristics and as such it is logically proper accord them different approaches on even the same issue, but it is difficult to operate this in co-educational schools. Mr. Chairman it is worthy to note that students in single schools perform better than those in mixed schools. Furthermore, my opponent may say, co-education promotes neatness and decent dressing among students, since everyone wants to be attracted by opposite sex. Being attracted to the opposite sex can lead to rape and harassment of girls. Finally co-education promote sexuality and premarital sex which leads to sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Mr. Chairman, with all said and done, co-education should be eliminated and discouraged. I am done. By: Goka Bernard 3E
SUCCESS MOTIVATION The price of hard work, dedication and determination is success. Until you work hard, you will have no idea how far you will be successful. Get along with people and learn more about their successful experience then apply it. Always think good, speak good and do good to people for you will never know the one who will help you to gain success. Great achievers do not wait for the right opportunity; rather they make the right opportunity. Therefore, do not wait for the last day, choose the right way now. Begin early and you will be on the road to success. Forget about failure or problems. Instead, always concentrate on how to develop yourself to become successful. Be your own boss because no one becomes rich by working for somebody. Hence make hay whiles the sun shines. By : Abbey George Nii (3 E F/T)
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By: Abbey George Nii (3E F/T)
DOCTOR DOCTORS If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors? By: Anonymous
BUTTERS BITTER Betty Boughter bought some butter. But she said the butters bitter. If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make it better than the bitter butter. So she bought a bit of better butter and put it in her batter. And her batter was not bitter. So it was Betty Boughter bought a bit of better butter.and put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter. By: Bentuo Osei Joshua (3E F/T)
MALARIA Malaria is a disease in Tropical Africa. It is caused by parasite, which is normally carried and injected into human by a mosquito. Not all mosquitoes carry the malaria parasite. The anopheles mosquito is the carrier of malaria. The malaria parasite uses the body of anopheles mosquito as a place to develop and wait until it is injected through a mosquito bite into the human blood stream. The anopheles usually uses it sharp proboscis to pierce the skin of it victim. It then emits some saliva to prevent the blood of the victim from clothing before it begins to suck the blood. The malaria parasite is injected into the victim’s blood stream together with the anti-clot saliva. The parasite then wriggles it way through the blood stream of the victim, entering the veins. Circulating and then growing and multiplying. Malaria attacks are normally accompanied by fever, chills, headache and occasionally vomiting. This means that, if malaria attacks, the victim develops a high body temperature while shivering with cold. The person sweats a lot and sometime throws up food. The victim may also develop a splitting headache and weak joints. There is also a loss of appetite and the eyes turn reddish-yellow. If malaria is left untreated, it can be fatal and the resultant of it is death. Several drugs are used in the treatment of malaria. Some prescribed drugs for the treatment of malaria include Camoquine, Nivaquine, Chloroquine and Fancidar. It is always best for a doctor to prescribe the type of drug that can fight a particular species of malaria parasite and to determine the dosage for a patient. Dosage depends very much on the age, body weight and tolerance of the patient to the drug. Malaria can be prevented in several ways. One of these methods are, by taking in anti-malaria drugs at regular intervals. It is taken not to cure, but to prevent the disease. Another method of preventing malaria is to make sure drainage system are well checked and empty cans are buried to avoid mosquitoes hatching in them. By: Yeaboah Alex Effah (3A F/T)
NO SHORT – CUT TO SUCCESS Students have once again been advised to do away with occultism, drunkenness, smoking and other vices which can shatter their God – given talents and vision. The problem with some school going youth of today is that, they have been so gullible as to believe that the spirits of the underworld can be consulted to help them excel in examination, sports, or in the relationship of women or in the realization of their ambitions in life. Similarly, others believe that taking to drugs can sharpen their memory and help them to pass their examinations with ease. The myths about occultism and drugs are influencing the behavioral patterns of students lately and the consequences have been far – reaching. Those who invoke bad spirits to attain personal goals have turned out to be spiritually enslaved. Indeed, some have lost their sanity after dabbling in spirits and have since become liabilities to the society. Therefore, the student body are being caution that, occultism, drugs and immoral behavior can only destroy them for good. I hope that the youth will learn from the mistakes of their colleagues who have ended in mental homes. They deserve better. Thank you. By: Yeaboah Alex Effah (3A F/T)
THE NEED TO ABOLISH CERTAIN CULTURAL PRACTICES I have read many articles in the media on the need to abolish certain cultural practices in Ghana. My contribution is not different from those expressed by contributors of various articles. These cultural practices do not only retard the growth of this country but abuses the rights and freedoms of the victims. At this stage of our country’s development the call by well meaning citizens that cultural practice such as the “trokosi” system, the female genital circumcision and the tribal marks must be abolish from our societies. The “trokosi” system which the predominant in most villages at the Volta Region practice condemns teenage girls to serve in fetish shrine to atone for the sin of their relatives. This system is not only barbaric but abuses the rights and freedom of the young girls and indeed tantamount to slavery. Most outrageous is the fact that some of these young girls are sexually abuse by the priest at the shrine in which they serve, which normally result in teenage pregnancy. It is also painful to note that the victims serve in the shrine for a long period of time and are denied access to formal education. This cultural practice is indeed oppressive and show evil towards women. Female circumcision is a culture which is practice among the people in Northern Ghana. This practice involves the cutting off of the clitoris located in female genital organ. And it is performed on female children at their early years, and traditionalists claim that the custom is meant to curb sexual desire in female children and preserve their chastity. This argument is reasonably indubitable when we consider the fact that the operation, apart from being performed under unhygienic condition inflict physical pain and mental agony on the victims and may also fall vulnerable to health hazards and even may suffer complications resulting from the operation. One shiver to think of how such an evil practice should be maintain in this civilized age. The making of tribal mark on the face is another controversial cultural practice. Traditionalist claim that tribal mark serves as identification to a person belonging to a clan or tribe to which he or she belongs to. It is true that there is the need to preserve our culture but the stark truth is that, cultural practice base on tribal marks have no place in these modern age. Apart from the fact that a victim’s face is distorted, thereby exposing him to public ridicule, making at tribal marks may result in some health hazards such as HIV AIDS among the people because the operation is normally perform by the use of unsterilised blade and instruments which can cause infection. Cultural practice should be dynamic not static so the cultural practices mention above should be totally abolished from our society. By: Kyei Gabriel(3 M F) MONEY IS TIME Some culture have the saying, “Time is money”. This emphasizes that people must spend time to earn money and wasting time is wasting money. The converse of this saying is also true MONEY IS TIME. If you waste money you are really wasting the time it took to earn that money. Learn how to control your spending and learn how to control your time. By creating a workable budget and then sticking to it. You don’t have to work for long hours to payoff large debts. By: Hall Baidoo Jeptha (3E F/T)
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