Schools In NW: Slight Increase In School Attendance

Though some schools gates were widely open, pupils and students are still dragging their feet.

Despite the most recent calls by PTA presidents, All Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions leaders as well as that of the Prime Minister Philemon Yang on Monday 6th March for parents to send their children to school on March 7th, most parents in the city of Bamenda are still hesitant to heed to the call. Some of them complained of threats from unidentified individuals while others hold that amnesty be granted to those arrested as a result of the strike.
During a sojourn of some schools in Bamenda, CT discovered that some schools whose gates were shut all this while were now open with school administrators and teachers present but without pupils or students.  In one of the private primary schools visited, CT spotted about 10 pupils receiving lessons. At GBHS Bamenda, the number of students attending classes have increased to about 1,016 students of both subsystems although the students of the Anglophone subsystem remain under 400. At PCHS Mankon no student came for classes but some students were seen registering for the GCE examination while both teaching and administrative staff watched on. At the Big Mankon Cathedral that host some catholic schools, some teachers were present with locked classes. A parent whom CT saw with his children disclosed that he was asked to take his children back home a...