Boakye Tromo Senior High Technical - Bostech

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10 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙀𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙖 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨

Some parents have stopped enrolling their children in extra lessons, not because they can’t afford it, but because despite attending lessons, their children show little or no improvement.

Now, a new school session has started, and extra lesson activities will soon begin. In fact, some parents even register their children for lesson immediately after the normal school hours, hoping it will make a difference. But after all these countless lessons, some children still struggle and end up failing.

This made me sit down to ask: what exactly is the problem? Why do some learners fail even after attending extra lessons?

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 10 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐟𝐮𝐥.

1. Lack of Rest and Fatigue

Many learners go straight from school into extra lessons without having proper rest. By the time the lesson starts, they are already tired and mentally drained. A tired brain cannot retain information, no matter how hard the teacher tries.

2. Poor Learning Foundation

If a child has weak foundations in reading, writing, or numeracy, adding more lessons on top will not help much. Without going back to fix those basics, the child will keep struggling in higher topics.

3. One-Size-Fits-All Teaching

Some lesson teachers use the same method for all learners. But children don’t all learn the same way. When a learner’s unique learning style isn’t considered, the extra lessons may not produce results.

4. Lack of Interest or Motivation

Some learners attend extra lessons only because their parents forced them. They sit there physically but are not mentally engaged. Without genuine interest, learning becomes a burden instead of a growth process.

5. Too Much Pressure

Parents sometimes load their children with lessons out of fear of failure or competition with others. This pressure can make the child anxious, fearful, and less productive. Instead of improving, the learner shuts down.

6. Wrong Focus in Lessons

Extra lessons often focus only on completing homework or preparing for exams, rather than addressing the learner’s actual weaknesses. When the root of the problem is ignored, progress will remain slow.

7. Poor Communication Between Parents and Teachers

Some parents don’t give feedback to the lesson teacher about what the child struggles with at home, and some teachers don’t update parents on progress. Without communication, both sides miss the chance to tackle the real issue.

8. Overcrowded Lesson Centres

In some places, “extra lesson” is not really extra attention. It’s just another crowded classroom where learners get lost in the group. If the child cannot ask questions freely, the whole purpose of extra lesson is defeated.

9. Learning Difficulties Not Detected

Some children have undiagnosed learning difficulties such as dyslexia, attention deficit, or memory problems. No matter the number of lessons, without early detection and support, the child will keep struggling.

10. Lack of Balance

Children also need time to play, relax, and explore. When life becomes all about lessons, their creativity and enthusiasm fade away. A learner who is stressed and unhappy cannot perform well academically.

Extra lessons can be very helpful if done the right way, but they are not magic. Before enrolling a child in another round of after-school classes, it’s important to pause and ask: what does this child really need? Sometimes, the solution is not more lessons, but the right type of support, encouragement, and balance.

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REASONS WHY SOME STUDENTS STRUGGLE IN HIGH SCHOOL.

By Mr Sam VIDAMBU. ✍️

1.Lack of content retention techniques.
When your kid comes home with bad grades, you always ask them, ‘Why have you dropped?’.
The child replies and says ‘Mum, I don’t know what my problem is, when teachers teach in class I always understand but when the exam comes I forget’. Your child has one problem, retention problem. For this problem to be solved, the student needs a proven academic mentor to take them through proper content retention techniques so that when the exam comes they can easily deliver.

2.Negative attitude.
A bad attitude can hinder personal growth, damage relationships and limit success. The only disability in life is bad attitude. The truth is, your attitude determines your altitude. A bad attitude is like a flat tyre, you can not go far until you change it.

3.Lack of reading cultures.
The student might want to create time to go through their books, but they find themselves sleeping, not because they like sleeping but because they lack the right reading cultures.

4.Home affairs.
Home affects school, that is the truth.
If home is not settled, the student can not settle well at school. If dad and mum are fighting daily, how can the student concentrate in class?

5.Lack of study habits.
Without study habits, it is difficult for a student to do well in class. Studying is a science, to understand this science a student needs to have the right skillsets and mindset. Study habits revolves around how a student conducts the personal study sessions.

6.Bad friends.
I am not a pastor but in the bible, in the book of 1st Corinthians 15:33, it says, ‘Do not be misled, bad company corrupts good morals’.
The truth is, if an A student walks with five E students, after some time, the A student will start getting Es. You are the average of the five closest friends you associate yourself with. If an E student walks with five A students, soon, the E student will be getting As.
Hang around winners so that your wins don’t sound like you are bragging.

7.Lack of revision techniques.
An A student has reading cultures, study habits and revision techniques.
Truth is, most students don’t know the difference between reading, studying and revising. Revision is about how a student studies their topics in an organised manner without ignoring some.
The A student with the right revision techniques knows that not everything will come in KCSE but anything can come in KCSE.

8.Lack of support from parent/guardian.
Truth be told, some parents don’t care about their children so long as they are in school.
Imagine a parent does not have the phone number of the class teacher of their child. To make it even worse, the parent does not know the name of the class teacher of their child. To many parents, their role is just to pay school fees and the teachers will perform miracles so that their kids can get As and go to do medicine in the university. It doesn’t work like that, this thing needs support from everyone.

9.Sitting position in class.
My advice to students is, if you know you are not doing well in class, ensure you are sitted among the first three rows in class. The reason is, you will not be tempted to doze off or speak to your friend when teachers teach. You will be alert because you will be worried the teacher can ask you a question anytime. All the students can not sit infront, I know that, in a class there will always be some who sit at the back. The class teacher should always rotate the sitting arrangement. The people who don’t like me will comment and say, ‘I was a backbencher but I passed my exams’. Everyone might not be as sharp as you were. This article is to help those who are not doing well to start doing well. If you do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always gotten. To get the results that you’ve never gotten, you must do things that you’ve never done.
Remember, if nothing changes, nothing changes.

10.Lack of a personal timetable.
Many high school students don’t have a working personal timetable, the few who have don’t follow them.
A timetable for a student is like Air traffic controller for the airport.
In The Vidambu’s Timetable, it is clearly stipulated how to study, when to study, 10 reading cultures, 10 study habits, 10 revision techniques and the 15 rules for making a working, practical and proven timetable.

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Honourable Gideon Boako, PhD visited candidates of Bomaa SHS, Boakye Tromo SHS, Serwaa Kese SHS, and Terchire SHS earlier today as they took their Mathematics paper in the ongoing WASSCE. He engaged with the students, encouraging them to remain focused, and expressed confidence in their potential to achieve outstanding results.
Thank you Honourable 👏