School Attendance: Situation Returns To Near Normal

 Parents, pupils and students in the North West Region now tend to ignore calls for school boycott.

IIt’s 7:15 am on Monday November 27, 2017, and little Kate and her younger brother are defying the ghost town operation in Bamenda, moving towards the direction of Saint Felix Catholic School Ntenefor in Bamendankwe.

Even the fact that the kids would have to share the sidewalk with a herd of cattle early morning will not deter them from reaching school.

At the entrance to the school, here comes over 60 parents dropping off their kids on motorbikes and on foot. The situation is not an isolated case. Across the city of Bamenda, pupils and students are early on campus for devotion.

They generally begin with prayers, hoisting of the green-red-yellow flag and signing of the national anthem, before proceeding into their classes.

In GBHS Bayelle, like in PSS Bafut, GBHS Kimbo, GBHS Nkambe, as well as other schools Cameroon Tribune visited in the region, pupils, students and teachers are in their classes.

The attendance of the school stakeholders has been boosted by the forces of law and order strategically deployed in school establishments.

Statistics compiled by the North West Regional Delegation of Secondary Education show that on Monday November 27, 2017, a typical ghost town day, over 58,000 students marked present in schools. The figures are even more startling on other school days.

According to the North West Regional Delegate of Secondary Education, Apah Itor Johnson, Mezam division tops the chart in terms of effective presence of students in school.

The host division of Bamenda is followed by Bui, Boyo, Ngoketungjia, Donga Muntung, Menchum and...