individual
house or hall masters meetings every Wednesday morning.
Every student must attend these meetings.
Generally,
only students in secondary school live as boarders at
the school. Primary students may walk or ride bicycles
to school. But in cities and busy towns such at Accra
and Kumasi, students normally go to school by taxi.
Teenagers
in Ghana wear school uniforms. The purpose is to differentiate
one school from another and to identify students who might
be loitering in town without permission.
Some
schools are so strict that they don't allow students to
wear anything except school uniforms.
The
standard number of students per class is 45. However,
due to the limited number of schools you could have 63
students per class. There is usually keen competition
for these spots. Students who perform poorly are laid
off (dropped). Teenagers in Ghana are