No school for children

A foster parent of two boys is disgusted because he cannot get schools to accept these children.

He has an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old boy in his care who both had to be removed from their parents’ homes due to drugs.

The foster dad says he has been struggling for longer than a week to get the children into a school, but was unsuccessful.

He says he now has to force the department of education to intervene, by forcing the schools to accommodate the children.

He says this is not the first time that he has struggled to find schools who would take the children who have had to be removed from their homes.

The 11-year-old was in and out of three schools during his Grade Five year last year.

He took small jobs to give money to his mother by packing groceries, and working as a car guard.

He is eager to learn, and is disappointed that he has to sit at home while other children go to school.

He dreams of becoming an engineer when he leaves school.

The 15-year-old boy, who was in Grade Eight also needs a school, but was also refused at several high schools.

He left school last year during the middle of the year and never went back.

The foster dad says it is sad that no school will give these children a second chance.

He is also shocked that no-one from the schools did something about these children’s absence from school.