Schools in Ghana (Education is Too Expensive) Homeschooling in Africa

Hello please is their a site you can suggest for me to find a home school teacher to come in for my 5th grader

When I lived in Ghana as a teenager I attended Ghana international School in Accra and I really enjoyed meeting and having friends from all over the world.

I grew up in Israel and raised my older adult children in Israel and its the same. Then I moved to America 10 years ago with my youngest now 17. Ummm why I worry about him for his last year of school.

Thank you for all that you do, i appreciate the frankness and transparency…..you two are amazing

kids get tired of their parents with home schooling. worst part, they can't tell them so the may act out, shut down, slow their learning.

i would say don't sell skill and drill short. the thought is that kids need learn how to learn as well as learn something. many problems occurs when teachers offer confusing directions to the learning process like, "don't memorize"… that to a child leaves them puzzled. all learning requires memorization, and there are several ways to aid that knowledge gain, one of those methods drilling. a better way for teachers to express what i think they are try to say is, "be able to explain what you are learning in you on words if you can". let's be honest sometimes an author has made the explanation so clear, his/her words fit well. one thing to note is as kids advance the subject matter will require them to develop other skills like reasoning. (algebra, chemistry, physics, geometry) but having learn how to learn is the skill every child can learn, teachers need to teach the methods that can be use to help students acquire the knowledge, lol, (since memorize information is such a dirty phrase to some teachers.) good grief. one method for a child may be have them write what they have to learn over and over again till they don't have to look back over the fact. or it maybe say the fact over and over again until they don't have to look at it again. or it maybe drills of answering questions, with hints given until… or any combination. here is the thing, teachers need not only to teach the subject matter, they also need to teach how to learn, how to study. parents need to be told that by the teachers as well. when a parent says go study, what do they actually expect the child to do… do they have a method the child can use… have they drilled that method with their child to see if it was effective. did the teacher after grading papers talk to the child to see what "studying" means to them. yes, i've heard the, "i read the chapter", a 100,000 times. i then have to say, "great, but then what did you do". i ask how did they reinforce what they had read so that they can recall it when needed?

you know the drill, read it, and sometimes it really helps to read it out loud. (you hear it and see it) pause as you read and pose the author a question, continue reading to see if he or she answered you. i tell them to think of the written word as if they have the teacher talking to them. take notes, or go back and make notes. oh yeah, they are thinking i've go the book i can just underline or highlight. of course i'm one of those that say no to that. the activity of writing it down or out has greater value. then i tell them what they should look for to write down, cause they are thinking every word must be important, keywords and definitions, a thought the author spent a lot of time explaining, etc. after they have done all that, i tell them they are ready to study. here i finish by telling them to memorize the notes they have made to the point where they can write the information down, with out looking back over it. all test i give a written.

most people don't know how to study. they don't know what that means and they have no method of doing so. at any age group the method of learning needs to be explained to the student cause they may have just been getting by without the skill of learning being told to them… teachers should have many methods they can suggest, but that method needs to be concrete so the student leaves with something they can actively do. active studying.
ok the results: after sitting with students and explaining how they should study, i noticed major grade improvements.

all learning requires memorization. i hope my fellows will stop confusing kids by saying "don't memorize, learn it"… kids seem to go out of their way to not memorize…but then they wonder now what.

those prices are ridiculous.

best to wait till your kids are out of school before moving to ghana.

Tony sounds just like me. I feel like I can teach my kids academics at home, but I can't teach them all the rest that comes along with being with people who aren't your family all day long. There is just so much that happens at school that I felt that my kids needed to experience. It's a tough choice isn't it, especially in the day and age of covid and fights over vaccines and masks…ugh.

Is that 3 months on 3 months off just for high schoolers or for little kids too? If it's for everyone, couldn't you both win this argument and have the best of both worlds? Put them in the "skill and drill" schools for the socialization as it's only half the year and homeschool them the other half? Honestly, at the very young ages there is something to be said for some amount of memorization. Last year I homeschooled my kids and my youngest's bff and her bff was 11 and didn't know her times tables. That was not fun!!

throw a rock and hit an international school 😂😂😅😅😅😂, but really why does it need to be in the title of so many schools 😩

Interesting video. There are some concepts that i would like you to expand on. Western education and the meaning of this concept education. I am was involved in bringing people like dr yosef ben jochannan, rev barashango , naim akbar, richard king, kwame ture, francis cress welsing and others to the houston area. What occurred to me was that this western thing was not education, looking at the root of the word but white nationalist training. I am a videographer in my spare time and made dvd’s of these talented people. I would like to make these videos available to ghanaians at some point in the future. Your thoughts.

Great content as always. There is no such thing as free lunch anywhere! Someone pays for school. In Long Island, NY, school is financed out of property taxes. Cost is spread amongst all homeowners whether or not the owner has children in school . We are paying approx $9,000.00 per year on a modest 1 family home on the Island. It appears that Ghanaian parents are assessed costs directly for their children. At sometime, Please talk about 🇬🇭 Ghana's tax system.

I sometimes think the powers that be don’t want Americans relocating to Ghana.

My family had the opportunity to travel to Ghana in Feb.2020 and we took our high school sons to Cape Coast and it was a real eye-opener for them. One of my son's teachers allowed him to write a report about experiencing going to Ghana. Another told him that he will not be able to get higher than a C in his classroom because we took "vacation" during the school year. FYI- I am a public school teacher.

There are a lot of international schools that teach the American and British Curriculum that are not as high priced, you just have to do the research. You have Victoria grammar school( British), galaxy, Ghana international school, east airport International.

My family is there in the cape coast 🥰🤩😍

I believe the boys will be missing a lot with regards to social life if they are home schooled.

Hi Expat Life Ghana

I hope you guys are doing well. First, I want to say thank you for showing talk about your experience Ghana in your amazing video’s. I have learned a lot from the Lence of an Expat experiences and also Pros and Cons about Ghana. I Appreciated the way you guys construct your messages in yours videos, even if sometimes the subject is hard to tackle.

How you try to construct the message respectfully even if the issues are negative. That been said, I watched your video about Education / Schools in Ghana. Although, I appreciated the information about Private school and international schools and their fees. I cannot help it but fell like I heard this rhythm played over and over about Ghanaian schools and the educational system from both Expats and Foreigners.

Like I Said, although I like the video about the schools in Ghana. I was hoping since you guys have the attention of the international world, you would mention some of the good middle-class school. Like Achimota, Wesley Grammar, St Thomas, Soul Clinic to mention few. These are good Middle-class school that some of the great leaders both in Ghana and foreign had opportunity to study in. These middle-Class school also has moderate school fees that any middle-class Ghanaian or any Expat who want their kids to have good education and the same time gain good experience about Ghanaian Culture and languages can send their kids to these schools. Please let be clear on this any Expat/ Foreigner or Returnee has the right to choose what kind of school their kids will go to or what type of education they want for their kids provided they can afford it.

The reason why I am writing this is because I have watched a lot Returnees, Expat Foreigners Videos for some times about schools in Ghana and what they think about Ghana educational system. I started to get the impression from these videos that the only way these foreign/ EXpats, Returnee/ kids will make in life or to acquire good education in Ghana unless they attend Private schools or international schools. I would say that impression is not true. I believe that Some of these Great Revelational Leaders who had make mark in the word and alos change the world had studied in these middle-class schools in Ghana. From US, Canada, and UK. Now, I know we had a lot of work to do when it comes to education in Ghana especially Government Locally schools. I believe with time those issue will be Rectified.

Please don’t take this in wrong way this is just my observation by watching many Expats and foreigners talked about Ghana Education system and Schools in their YouTube videos. I like you guys and I want you guys to continue to educate other Expats about how one can talk about about negativity in a constructive and respectful way and if you can do proper investigation on middle-class school in Ghana. Anyway, you guys are doing good job.

There are lot of private schools that run local curriculum that cost under $2000 a year.
Loads of Ghanaians go through the local program in Ghana and enrol in universities in USA and UK very easily

Tony and Ayo! Great and Informative video. Tony! Dope T-shirt! Yeah!

They are your kids so you have a say. But I think u doing them a disservice as they will make friends and mingle with other kids in Tema. I went to school in creator In community 4. Look it up, it was one of best memories, also Senior Secondary school is free in Ghana , they will grow up quick and be great kids after. But good luck

Hi beautiful people, looking great as always, God bless you richly for your good work,I agree, ,that school in Ghana is expensive especially in Accra,and also the private schools.

Excellent informative video as always guys! Homeschooling is a great idea. I went to GIS and wasn't at all impressed. Lots of rote learning and regurgitation with very limited true preparation for the international economy. Even at GIS, to do well in high school came down to the individual students self-prep at home. The teachers and school are basically useless towards the end of high school so you might as well be home schooled (with private tutors) and then take the final high school leaving exams (A-levels in my time) at a test centre. I witnessed serious disasters in students who attempted to rely on the teachers/teaching. Even the best international Schools (and there are many super costly and super crap int schools in name only cos they claim to teach a foreign language) are a blood sucking scam business in Ghana! Only pluses are the social interaction (lots of conservative Ghanaians btw..so not of much value if you are more progressive minded) and the structure which pushes kids to keep learning plus references on school letterhead etc for university towards the end. As long as you can create some structure at home, you're on the right track!

Please free secondary education in Ghana is not only tuition. It covers everything. Food, text books and uniforms.

Ghana educational program is one of the best especially KG to High school. U are doing more harm to your kids. My kids came to the USA from Ghana and both were average students in Ghana but top of the class in the USA. Elementary/ High school. They are college graduates now. I would like you to find out from kids who left Ghana 🇬🇭 to school in the USA 🇺🇸.and you will be surprised to know how they have performed. The so called $25,000 a year schools can never compete with most of the government High schools. The high cost schools are just for the rich and diplomats and a class in society. There is no funded research program in schools in Ghana and that is the problem. More theory and less practical. Enroll your kids in the normal Ghana Int. School and get a private teacher at home. The American universities are Unique and powerful but KG to High school trust me Ghana 🇬🇭 schools can compete anywhere in the world 🌎..

Those providing private schools are just doing business, and as it is with Ghanaians they will charge as much as they can get away with if people will patronize them. The thing is they probably don't pay taxes on the exorbitant money they have been making and neither do they pay their teachers well. The public school system is the system through which we all received our education and it has produced outstanding men and women who are contributing to the well-being and advancement of humanity. It is the same public education that produced the likes of Dr. Mensah, the fibre optics inventor and Dr. Ollenu, the NASA scientist