{
  "id": 14204432,
  "title": "Dichemso M/A teachers go house-to-house to get absent pupils back to class after strike suspension",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/dichemso-m-a-teachers-go-house-to-house-to-get-absent-pupils-back-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-13T13:07:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/dichemso-m-a-teachers-go-house-to-house-to-get-absent-pupils-back-to-class-after-strike-suspension/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Teachers at Dichemso M/A School in Kumasi have taken an unusual approach to encourage absent pupils to return to school following the suspension of their strike. Despite classes resuming, attendance remained low on the first day, leaving some classrooms only partially filled and raising concerns about the loss of instructional time. The teachers had gone on strike for two weeks, demanding improved service conditions. In an interview with JoyNews, the Headmistress of the school, Helena Amponsah, revealed that they had been actively reaching out to absent pupils. They had even sent some students to make phone calls and others to personally contact the parents, hoping that some would respond while others did not. \"We presume that they have not gotten the news or heard the news,\" Amponsah said, expressing hope that from the following day, more pupils would return to school. All teachers had reported for duty, and the school had resumed lessons with morning classes to help pupils re-establish their academic routine. To make up for the lost contact hours, the school plans to implement additional lessons and extend teaching hours, covering topics missed during the strike. \"We are going to definitely make up to them by doing extra classes, morning classes, afternoon classes, and night classes, to make up for all the lost lessons and topics,\" Amponsah added.",
  "summary": "Teachers at Dichemso M/A School in Kumasi have begun visiting the homes of absent pupils to encourage parents to send their children back to school following the suspension of the teachers’ strike.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}