SCHOOLING will be disrupted for the second day at Meadowlands High School this morning.
The National Association of School Governing Bodies (NASGB) and parents locked the gates on Friday in protest against the suspension of the school's principal, Moss Senye, and a teacher, Fancy Phehle.
The two were suspended in February after their arrest for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old pupil at the school.
The pupil was allegedly hit with open hands and fists and kicked by the two after he had been "disruptive" in class.
On Friday pupils and teachers were barred from going into the school. Pupils were scattered across the school's busy Van Onselen Street.
NASGB Meadowlands branch chairperson Buddy Sekatane said they were tired of waiting for the department to act.
They want Senye and Phehle back.
He said they had written several letters to Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, Gauteng MEC for education Barbara Creecy and head of department Boy Ngobeni, but had received no response.
"They are not taking the education of the black child seriously. Educators are doing whatever they like because they are not being supervised. Why should 1400 children suffer because of one child (the pupil who was allegedly assaulted). He no longer attends school there," Sekatane said.
Sekatane said after Senye's suspension, the department never did not appointed an acting principal.
Pupils told Sowetan that they also wanted the principal back because the teachers weren't performing their duties since his suspension.
"We are not surprised that we are outside. Even when we are in the school yard there is no teaching. We just sing and dance when we are supposed to be learning," a matric pupil said.
"All they do is sit in the staff-room all day," another said.
Parent Veli Rikhotso said she was worried about matriculants who start their preliminary examinations on September 7. The examinations count for 25percent of their final mark.
"They haven't been learning and preliminary exams are around the corner. What is going to happen? Moss should be brought back, period," Rikhotso said.
Gauteng education spokesperson Charles Phahlane said a team of investigators had been sent to the school to investigate.
"Should we find that SGB members or teachers have broken the law or have contravened their employee contracts, we will take action. There is an acting principal," said Phahlane.
Soweto pupils want their principal back
SCHOOLING will be disrupted for the second day at Meadowlands High School this morning.
The National Association of School Governing Bodies (NASGB) and parents locked the gates on Friday in protest against the suspension of the school's principal, Moss Senye, and a teacher, Fancy Phehle.
The two were suspended in February after their arrest for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old pupil at the school.
The pupil was allegedly hit with open hands and fists and kicked by the two after he had been "disruptive" in class.
On Friday pupils and teachers were barred from going into the school. Pupils were scattered across the school's busy Van Onselen Street.
NASGB Meadowlands branch chairperson Buddy Sekatane said they were tired of waiting for the department to act.
They want Senye and Phehle back.
He said they had written several letters to Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, Gauteng MEC for education Barbara Creecy and head of department Boy Ngobeni, but had received no response.
"They are not taking the education of the black child seriously. Educators are doing whatever they like because they are not being supervised. Why should 1400 children suffer because of one child (the pupil who was allegedly assaulted). He no longer attends school there," Sekatane said.
Sekatane said after Senye's suspension, the department never did not appointed an acting principal.
Pupils told Sowetan that they also wanted the principal back because the teachers weren't performing their duties since his suspension.
"We are not surprised that we are outside. Even when we are in the school yard there is no teaching. We just sing and dance when we are supposed to be learning," a matric pupil said.
"All they do is sit in the staff-room all day," another said.
Parent Veli Rikhotso said she was worried about matriculants who start their preliminary examinations on September 7. The examinations count for 25percent of their final mark.
"They haven't been learning and preliminary exams are around the corner. What is going to happen? Moss should be brought back, period," Rikhotso said.
Gauteng education spokesperson Charles Phahlane said a team of investigators had been sent to the school to investigate.
"Should we find that SGB members or teachers have broken the law or have contravened their employee contracts, we will take action. There is an acting principal," said Phahlane.
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