Nana Afrah Sika Mensah, the Deputy Coordinator at the Free Senior High School (SHS) Secretariat, has emphasized the importance of focusing on the successes of the policy rather than its challenges.
Acknowledging issues such as food shortages in some schools, she argued that the benefits of the policy far outweighed the drawbacks.
In an interview, she highlighted that the policy had been a significant benefit to children from underprivileged homes.
Mensah stressed the need to give more attention to the positive aspects of the policy rather than dwelling on the negatives.
“Free SHS has really helped us as a country, and then maybe, had it not been for Free SHS, people like my siblings out there wouldn’t get access to quality education. So even though we have challenges, we should rather make the positives outweigh the challenges we are facing as a secretariat.”
“We’ve given people access to education. People from the less endowed communities or people who are less privileged in the communities, had it not been for Free SHS, they would not get the opportunities to foot bills for their wards,” she stated.
