Miss Naana Biney, Deputy Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), said the four-year Senior High School programme that has just commenced would require extra commitment from parents.
She said the commitment would be in form of supervision and provision of logistics to facilitate the teaching and learning processes in schools.
Miss Biney was speaking at the 17th anniversary and the first Speech and Prize-Giving Day of Baidoo Bonsoe Senior Technical High School at Agona-Nkwanta.
She said parents need to be more interested in what their children do in and out of school and also visit their schools to get to know about their progress as well as information on issues concerning the institutions.
Miss Biney was happy that the school is receiving the communal support that it needs to provide quality education for the people in the community.
The Deputy Director said in the present dispensation, it was necessary that the community and the Heads of Schools become the managers of the schools for the benefit of the students and people.
She said this explains why much importance is attached to the School Management Committees as well as the Boards of Governors, Old students and Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA).
Miss Biney noted that even thought it is in order to criticise, undue interference in the administrative processes and the running of the school would not serve the best interest of the community.
Dr Kwesi Jonah, Senior Lecturer in Political at the University of Ghana, Legon, said within the 50 years of independence, six educational reform have been tried in the country.
This means that on the average, there is an educational reform plan every eight years, he said.
Dr Jonah who was the guest speaker said in post-colonial Ghana, "We have successfully turned our educational system into a political football kicked in different directions by successive governments".
He said before one educational reform plan becomes consolidated and the benefits begin to show another one would have been introduced to supplant it.
Dr Jonah said, "As a nation, the time has come for us to resolve that education is too important to be turned into a Kotoko-Hearts of Oak knock-out football match".
"Governments should stop scoring political points over their predecessors in the area of educational reform", he said.