The Ministry of Education has been asked to review its skewed emphasis on the success in academic work and examinations and focus on co-curricular capabilities of children.
Reverend Djaba Nyakotey, Chief Executive Officer of Dawhenya School Complex Project, who made the appeal, asked educational authorities to focus on educating and directing the mind, heart and hands of the able-bodied as well as the disabled to position themselves for the opportunities in the global world.
In a statement to Ghana News Agency in Accra, Rev Nyakotey called for a holistic educational system to prepare the Ghanaian youth to meet the challenges of the world market.
He said the school project was initiated to educate, sensitize and challenge able-bodied pupils and disabled pupils, parents and guardians to take advantage of opportunities on the global world.
"The school complex, an outreach of Shiloh Baptist Church, Dawhenya, would focus on developing the total person.because there is the need for Ghana to confront the cultural prejudices and stereotypes that the physically and developmentally challenged individuals face in society," he said.
Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, commended the management of the Church for initiating the project.
He stressed that "a school complex catering for both the able-bodied and the disabled is a welcome venture. We are all at risk...our roads and social circumstances could make us potential victims any day".
Such good projects need the total support of all residents and well-wishers".
The project would officially be jointly launched on Thursday, December 10, at Osu by Mr Mensah, and Rev. Professor Aaron Mike Owusu Oquaye, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
The Director General of Ghana Education Service would deliver the keynote address, with Nene Kweku Gyebi II, Asafoatse of Addico Wem, of
Dawhenya as Special Guest of Honour.