PHOTO: William R. Tolbert High School in Bong County
By Juliana Noah Johnson
About seven hundred students of the William R. Tolbert High School in Gbalatuah, Bong County may not go back to school, if immediate renovation is not done on their school building damaged by heavy rainstorm.
This school, named after the late 19th President of Liberia, Dr. William R. Tolbert, Jr, saw its already leaking building in central Liberia recently hit by the storm.
So far, the situation remains the same and the damage not to be getting the attention of government authorities.
Several 12th graders are back in school, sitting damaged leaking classrooms during this ongoing rainy season.
Explaining of ordeal of the school, Mr, Gorline Weh, Principal of the William R. Tolbert, said the rainstorm damaged several offices, classrooms and other facilities,
He disclosed that even before the storm, the roof of the school building had leakages everywhere, something that caused embarrassment for students.
Mr. Weh put the cost of the renovation works on the damaged building at approximately US$10,000.00.
Other students effected include girls boarding students on the Victoria Tolbert dormitory who are also students of William R. Tolbert high school.
According to Principal Weh, the Bong County Education Officer and friends of the Gbalatuah high school in the diaspora have expressed concerned and say they are worried about the prospect of students go back to school, if government reopens school for classes other than 12th grade.
The William R Tolbert Jr high school, formally Gbalatuah high school, was founded in the late 1960‘s by former President Tolbert and former First Lady Victoria A. Tolbert, with the goal to providing opportunity and space to young boys and girls across the country.