Madam Benedicta Naana Biney, Acting Director General of Ghana Education Service, (GES) has advised parents to devote much time to the upbringing of children to complement efforts of teachers.
This, she said, would help equip the children with the needed societal values and prevent them from indulging in acts that would impact negatively on the efforts of stakeholders to provide quality education.
Madam Biney made the call in a speech, read on her behalf, at the graduation and end-of-year anniversary of United Family Academy, in Accra.
It was under the theme: "Developing Future Leaders Through Quality Education."
She noted that most parents usually spend longer hours on business issues and have transferred their parental responsibilities to teachers in schools, adding that, "parents seem not to care about what their children do at school or home."
"We put our children in schools, pay their fees but we do not support them, this is the time that we need to listen, understand and inculcate in them the virtues of empathy, honesty, dignity and appreciation," she stated.
Madam Biney pointed out that children build their relationships based on the experiences acquired from school and friends in communities, adding that, parents can only get to know and check their children when they spend quality time with them.
She urged authorities of educational institutions and the communities to play complementary roles to ensure that children are adequately informed about societal values and obtain the best form of education in the country.
Mr Paul Kweku Mensah, head teacher of the school, appealed to the government to help in the supply of teaching and learning materials for
private schools since government approved textbooks were not available on the market.
He suggested that private schools be included in the educational reforms and training programmes for teachers to help in equal delivery of quality education.