Mother weeps over son's admission to PRESEC
Kofi Yeboah Writes, THE Presbyterian Boys Senior High School, Legon (Legon PRESEC) is arguably one of the best senior high schools in Ghana and many a parent will jump in ecstasy when their sons gain admission into that renowned school. But Lydia Ofei, a resident of Suhum in the Eastern Region, burst into tears in utter disappointment about her son gaining admission into Legon PRESEC. Due to poverty, Lydia, a mother of five and single parent working as an attendant at a nursery school in Suhum, had advised her 16-year-old son to choose one of the three senior high schools in Suhum as a day student because that is what she can afford. However, Isaac Obeng, brilliant and ambitious, defied his mother’s advice and chose Legon PRESEC as a boarding student, and that is what made his mother cry inconsolably. “When the results were released, I was happy and equally sad. I don’t have money and so I told him to choose a day school in Suhum. But he said that [Legon PRESEC] was the only school he