DEAR Editor,-
Your article ‘Drama unfolds at Jai Hind’ refers. As a community member with a daughter, nieces and nephews at Jai Hind Primary, I am disappointed that the Department of Education (DOE) and the school governing body (SGB) cannot manage the affairs of the school in respect of appointing a principal.
The teacher who lost 100 maths lessons and a further 40 this year must be punished by the DOE. Are they afraid of him or that he gets away with it? Can any teacher miss lessons and get away with it? What kind of education department do we have? Or are the children of the education department employees sent to private schools, so they are not worried about other people’s children?
The SGB must know that they were voted in to represent parents and that they should not become sellouts. As for the principal, do we have to be rocket scientists to figure this out? Or are there political or hidden agendas and financial demands? And who is getting thirty thousand rands for a post?
The DOE must wake up and do the right thing, before parents take up these issues themselves to sort things out. Parents all be gathered to sort things out, which will be ugly and the DOE will be shamed. I hope the DOE has answers when the Herald follows up.
UNHAPPY PARENT
Port Shepstone
