''I PREFER TAKING CARE OF CATTLE TO GOING TO SCHOOL''

I prefer taking care of cattle to going to school, i did not see any reasons why i should waste my time going to school.

Akhilu is the is a 9 year old boy in Central Tongu District of Ghana in Volta Region. He is seen at home everyday without doing anything nor going to school. Several people said it the parents that are not performing their parental responsibilities that is why he is always loitering around.

One one Sunday after church, i took the pain to find out form the mother what is the matter that Akhilu is not going to school as the other siblings are doing. Information gathered from the mother on our one-on-one conversation shows that, Akhilu has school bag, uniform and other school supplies.

I was amazed by what she told me and wanted to find out more reason why he is not going to school. '' i enrolled him in the lower primary for the past one year but he said he is not interested in school, and all my efforts to make him go back to school yield no result, said the mother.

I then ask from the mother to call him for me so that i can talk to him myself. He said, my mother and father said i should go to school but i do not want to go to school but rather want to take care of cattle in the bush so that i can have a lot of cattle and get milk and cheese from it. i do not want to go to school because i over head my father saying you cannot even get any job to do after your long year stay school. From that time, i decided to go to the farm instead of school but my mother will not agree.

After our talk i do not know what to say about our education in the country what information is available for children, sister and brothers who refuses to go to school. I want your say and comments