Two Mary Waters High School teachers visited the Grocott’s Mail offices last week shocked by the allegations made by learners in the article published in last Tuesday’s edition (“Principal denies learners’ allegations at Mary Waters”).
Two Mary Waters High School teachers visited the Grocott’s Mail offices last week shocked by the allegations made by learners in the article published in last Tuesday’s edition (“Principal denies learners’ allegations at Mary Waters”).
Some learners at the school had alleged that the school had no Maths Literacy or Accounting teachers in their employ so they were forced to take the subjects of History and Pure Maths instead.
Ntombekhaya Mahlahla and Elizabeth Adesina said that the allegations were untrue because the school does not have a shortage of Accounting and Maths teachers.
Mahlahla affirmed that an agreement has been made between the school and Rhodes University’s Education Department so that should the school find itself without a teacher in any learning area, Rhodes would organise and provide teachers. “We make sure that the children never go without being attended to,” he said.
The teachers believe that the confusion could be attributed to the fact that the learners are not first language English speakers and they may have misunderstood what they had been told.
Mahlahla added that the school has arranged extra classes for Commerce learners and because learners generally do not like attending extra classes, they could have interpreted this as the school not offering these classes anymore.
“We encourage parents to come to the school and ask questions if they and their children do not understand what is happening at the school, that way we can avoid any misunderstandings,” said Mahlahla.
Mahlahla maintains that there is no shortage of teachers at the school, especially in the Maths and Accounting departments, “what we are missing is an HOD for Accounting,” she said. The school has advertised for this post and lessons are continuing as normal.
