This morning half of us headed to Pokuase Schoools to meet with teachers and the other half (including me) headed to Akropong to meet with administrators. We drove about an hour and half through Accra and outlying areas to a rode up the mountain, through several villages to reach Akropong. Akropong is a district that includes 9 circuits of schools. Each circuit includes roughly 15 schools including several secondary schools.
We got the district office a bit early and caught the officers a little off-guard. They seemed unclear of our mission and, in fact, somehow thought we were British and had arrived there several days earlier. We were welcomed and very formally issued into the district supervisors office, a green and gold brocade draperied room. There was a bit of uncomfortable handshaking and questioning before we made it clear that we were not there to assess their programs, only to inquire about their system and to learn.
We then reassembled in a meeting room and spent most of the remainder of our time there with Larry, the public relations officer and several other administrators. I was quite impressed the that the officer in charge of math and science was a woman. She proudly told us about the female student from the district who had recently won the national science award for achievement.
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