Jirapa: Pupils in Tampoe M/A primary school sit on bare floor to study

Pupils of Tampoe M/A Primary School sit on the floor to learn during school hours in the Jirapa Municipality of the Upper West Region.

Lack of classrooms and inadequate furniture at the primary school is affecting academic work in the school.

Some pupils were seen lying on their bellies to write and others have improvised blocks and stones as seats and the situation at the upper primary level was no different.

Conditions in the classrooms were deplorable as children sit on the cracked cemented floor to take lessons.

Teachers at the school are struggling to assess the performance of the students.

Another major challenge facing the school includes overcrowded classrooms as well cracks in the classroom walls which are likely to collapse one day.

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