The nation's desire to provide quality education to her citizenry will be a mirage, if issues of infrastructural development, educational materials and teachers' motivations are not addressed.

This assertion was gleaned from that the fact schools, from the Kindergarten to Senior High School, (SHS) in the Yilo Krobo District, leave much to be desired, since pupils and students continue to study in shade of open places in this day of civilization, with lack, or little teacher commitment towards effective teaching and learning.

This was uncovered when this reporter conducted a survey on the state of schools in the district.

Some of the schools visited by the paper include the Klo-Agogo Senior High, Klo-Agogo Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High, Nkurankan Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High among others, which space would not allow being included.

At Klo-Agogo Senior High School, the Assistant Headmaster in charge of Academics, Mr. Charles Nyanor, in an interview with the paper, expressed his worry over the state of the school.

According to him, the school was formerly known as the Klo-Agogo Roman Catholic Junior Secondary School, and was upgraded to the status of Senior High School (SHS) in 1991, becoming one of the two SHS, including Yilo Krobo Senior High, in the district.

He continued that unlike other schools where the statuses have been upgraded with their corresponding modern educational materials and motivation, little could be said about his school.

Mr. Nyanor stated that due to pressure on accommodation, the school authorities were forced to convert some of the limited classroom blocks into a girls' dormitory, dinning and assembly hall.

He further mentioned lack of teachers' bungalows, which had compelled teachers to travel daily from Koforidua to school, and also the lack of taps or borehole to access portable drinking water, as some of the problems.

He intimated that the students have to join long queues and struggle with members of the community to draw water from a borehole, leading to misunderstandings and fighting.

In an attempt to identify the cause of low motivation and infrastructure development, the Assistant Headmaster jumped on the District Assembly for showing no compassion towards development of education in the area.

According to him, the Assembly had shown a lukewarm attitude to the problems of the school.

The MP promised, and also asked the school to purchase a parcel of land, somewhere in 2004 to construct teachers' bungalows, which they (school authorities) accordingly did, but since then the MP had not set foot in the school.

According to him, the former District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Mr. Christian Tettey, during his days in 2004, started the construction of a two unit semi-detached teachers' bungalow, but it was not completed, and has been abandoned in the bush.

For both the Klo-Agogo and Nkurankan Roman Catholic Kindergarten and JHS, they could only boast of studying comfortably under shades and close at the slightest downpour.