In-spite of challenges in rural education system, the leadership of the Arthington Public School is requesting the government to focus on assigning qualified teachers and making available resources to augment both infrastructures and instructional capacity building.
According to Principal Jerome O. Pedersen, the challenge to rebrand the institution to a high school level.
The school district in that part of Montserrado remains one of the top priorities as government drives aim at changing the narrative of the sector.
Pederson lauded the Minister of Education Dr. Jarso Malley Jallah, for the level of support that the school continues to receive from the government and partners.
The school building, he mentioned, was fully renovated in recent time to serve as a decent learning environment.
At the moment, the school is under-going transformation through the advocacy of the instructional staff to have benefited a modern computer lab and reading room to get the students on par with present-day quality of education.
The well-installed computer lab is not functional, because it lacked electricity. Students of the institution do not have access to handle the equipment meant to acquire digital knowledge.
The principal said, the reading room was established by KEEP-Liberia, a local non-governmental organization headed by Mrs. Brenda Brewer Moore, with a standing record of upgrading early learning foundations across the country.
KEEP’s initiative coupled with prepared texts from the curriculum prescribed by MoE have bettered the performance of students, who passed through the walls of the Arthington Public School.
The school is at a secondary level with both employed and volunteered teachers. The volunteers that have been working with the requisite credentials are being processed by the MoE Human Resource Department for proper identification and employment.
Mr. Pedersen believes in the statutory and mutual cooperation of the Jallah’s administration at the MoE that the staff of the Arthington Public School is confident that the employment of their colleagues is achievable to elevate the school as soon as possible.
Source: John Dennis Weah
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