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Parents protested in front of the school to demand a new teacher.
MELTON PRIMARY: NEW TEACHER IN NICK OF TIME
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arents and learners packed into Melton Primary School, in Melton Rose, Eerste River, to raise their concerns about the 10-month absence of a teacher. The school governing body (SGB) shut the school down on Friday 6 March to protest against the longstanding issue.
According to the governing body’s public relations officer Anthony Burger, the teacher who is responsible for history, mathematics and geography for Grades 4, 5 and 6 learners has not been working since last year. “There is a teacher hired to teach the subjects but he has been on and off work for a while,” he explains. “He books off sick regularly then comes
back to work for a while before being booked off sick again.” Burger says this is a problem because learners have not been taught anything since the start of the school year. “None of the learners have any work in their books, which means that they have not been taught anything this year. “We (SGB) tried getting substitute teachers for a few days but that also caused a
problem because these teachers do not have teachers’ manuals to teach these children.” Alice Jacobs, whose child attends the school said it was sad for the future of the children to be jeopardised like this. “We put our children in schools so that they can learn, going months without teachers causes a danger to their education,” she said. V To page 2
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