The second track of the DoubleTrack Free Senior High School (Free SHS)system which commenced on November 12, 2018 is in limbo as some Headmasters in the Eastern Region are rejecting newly trained graduate teachers posted to their schools.

First year students under this year's DoubleTrack Free Senior High School (Free SHS)system, numbered about 196,000 made up of both boarding and day students.

The objectives of the double-track system was to create room to accommodate increase in enrollment, reduce class size, increase contact hours, and increase the number of holidays.

However, the system seem to be creating problems in senior high schools due to inadequate and lack of qualified teachers in the Gold Track stream.

According to some of the Headmasters, teachers posted to teach certain-subjects do not have knowledge in the subjects they were posted to teach.

The headmaster of the Kade Senior High School in the Kwaebibirem municipality Emmanuel Nana Yaw Danquah in an interview with the media said aside the lack of knowledge on the subjects, some of the teachers are also not needed because the School does not offer subjects in which they have been posted to teach.

“The only problem we are having that I want you to amplify is that they are sending teachers to schools to teach certain subjects that they have not done. They have sent teachers or students who have done let’s say health education to come and teach Maths, they sent more of Asante Twi teachers to us here but we don’t do Asante Twi and even most of them indicated that they didn’t do Twi so you could see that it has been done in a bit of haste”.

He said a letter has been written to the Regional Directorate of GES releasing the Teachers for reposting while requesting for qualified teachers for specific subjects needed.

“So we have written letters to take them back to the Regions and GES office to repost them to schools that need such teachers. Right now I am not getting – Physics ,Chemistry , CRS .I have already spoken to my teachers those on the Green Track to remain as we await the GES to bring us those teachers we can’t leave the Kids in classroom without attending to them. We have told them to hold forth and they are on”.

Meanwhile, The Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in the Ashanti region is warning of dire problems in senior high schools due to inadequate teachers in the Gold Track stream.

According to the group, an assessment of the teacher front suggests that several schools are understaffed as teachers in the green track; most of whom are experienced, have taken a break.