Fifteen St Mary’s Girls SHS Students Pregnant - Headmistress

The Management of St Mary’s Girls Senior High School at Konongo in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality of the Ashanti Region, has disclosed that fifteen of their student are heavly pregnant. The worried headmistress bemoaned the increasing rate of the students getting pregnant, a development she described as a threat to girl child education. Management of the school describe the teenage pregnancy situation in the district as alarming and therefore called for stakeholders collective effort to check the issue.

The Headmistress of the school, Madam Alice Martha Adjei disclosed “recent report indicates a total of 15 of my girls are pregnant. Four of them are final year students being prepared for their final exams, other 10 students are second year students. Surprisingly, a newly admitted form one student for the 2023 academic year is also pregnant” she explained.

The headmistress who appeared very concerned about the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy among girls of school going age encouraged parents and guardians to compliment the effort of the schools to halt premarital affairs among young girls which could ruin their education.