How interesting. In this era of technology and advancements, some schools still uphold weird rules that are heavily impeding the progress of the girl child.
I was amassed during our visit to the Young Female Parliamentarians in Islamic Secondary School in Tamale when the girls bitterly mentioned the practice in their school where girls attend preps for 1 hour, 30minutes (7:30pm-9:00pm) while the boys continuous studies in the name of preventing sexual relationship among students.
In this era of awareness and choice, how can schools be this restrictive to not even see the negatively huge effect of this on the performance of girls in the school. We can all remember how noisy it use to be in the dormitories after prep hours. So this rule practically deprive girls of the time and peace to study and further marginalized them for boys to reach higher in the educational leather over girls.
The Young Female Parliamentarians (YFP) project of NORSAAC work in 20 public schools of the Northern Region towards building the capacity of young females in second cycle and tertiary institutions to occupy leadership positions in their schools and communities and to also serve as change makers on issues negatively affecting females in school. This is a measure to overcome the challenge of low females in leadership positions as we progressively empower these females for leadership positions now and in the near future.
The YFP members in each school meet twice in a term to identify and deliberate on key issues surrounding leadership and development of the female student in their respective schools. It was during the termly meeting of the YFP in Islamic Science School that the above issue emerged. The young females are very unhappy and have devised measure to solve this problem once and for all.
I SHALL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THEIR PROGRESS AS IT ROLES ON.
kawusadaabubakari 