Quality education to children is a major step to fighting moral decadence in the Ghanaian society, the Guidance and Counselling Coordinator of the Ghana Education Service, Mr Vincent Agidi, has said.
He said with the right education and direction, the fight against moral decadence is half won.
Mr Agidi said this at the 2010 graduation ceremony of the Link Nursery, Preparatory and Junior High School at Shiabu, a suburb of Accra. It was under the theme: "Quality Education - A Shared Responsibility".
Mr Agidi said without access to quality education, the Ghana's vision to become a middle income nation by 2015 would be a mirage.
He called on all stakeholders in education to give out their best in supporting children to supplement government's efforts in ensuring that
children get quality education.
He advised students to be ambassadors of discipline and expressed the hope that they would become better future leaders if they continued to
uphold moral values.
Nii Armah Hammond, Headmaster of the School said it had chalked many successes in quiz competitions organised by the Ghana Private School
Association in Accra, adding that the first batch of student, who sat the Basic Education Certificate Examination in 2009, had 100 per cent pass.
He announced that the School has a well resourced Information, Communication Technology (ICT) centre, enough library books and appealed to
philanthropists to support the school to complete an ongoing library block project.
The school established in 1994 with three children now has a population of 500.
The proprietor of the School, Mrs Comfort Hagan, said the School's aim is to ensure that its products were well trained and given quality education to become productive in the future.
Mr John Brew, Chairman of the Ghana Private Schools Association Zone 5 in Accra, who chaired the programme, said education always broadened the
outlook of the children. He added that the performance exhibited by the children at the programme spoke volumes of the School's achievements.
He, therefore, appealed to parents to use their money to educate their children rather than on things which would not bring progress.
In all 52 students graduated. Twenty-Four pupils from Kindergarten '1' and '2' with 28 graduating from the Junior High School to the Senior High School.