Most Reverend Francis A.K. Lodonu, Catholic Bishop of Ho, on Wednesday appealed to Heads of Catholic Basic Schools in the Volta Region which had zero to 20 percent in the 2012 BECE to undertake performance audits to reverse their standing.
Bishop Lodonu was addressing a durbar of teachers in Ho to mark this year's Catholic Education Week celebration on the theme, "Improving discipline and academic performance in Basic Schools."
A report on the performance of Schools in 2012 BECE in the region showed that a total of nine catholic schools recorded zero per cent with eight scoring 100 per cent.
Bishop Lodonu said it was unacceptable for any Catholic school to present pupils for examination with all the pupils failing and urged the teachers to sit up.
He asked them to show "love and interest" in the academic progress of pupils and “spend” their energy on them.
"Teachers have to learn to be concerned about what pupils do after school. You must simply follow your pupil after school to know how he or she performs," Bishop Lodonu said.
Mr Kofi Adanu, a representative of the Volta Regional Director of Education, urged teachers to make good use of their contact periods with pupils.
He asked them to use "good" teaching methods and desist from using old lesson notes which will only produce old bad results."
During an open forum, Madam Helen Dzoagbe, a teacher, attributed the poor academic performance to lack of commitment from teachers.
Mr Raphael K. Kwashie, Volta Regional Manager of Catholic Schools, said in the past two and a half years, the Church had constructed classroom blocks at Hoe, Shia, Ashanti Kpoeta, Batume Junction, Ziope, Tsito Awudome and Gbi Atabu.
He said capacity building workshops were also held for heads of Catholic basic schools towards improving academic performance.
The durbar was attended by parents and pupils from selected schools.