RIVONIA Primary School principal Carol Drysdale will today appear before an internal disciplinary hearing for insubordination.
Drysdale's woes started in February 2011 when the school placed a Grade 1 girl on the waiting list citing her parents' late application.
The Gauteng education department insisted the girl be admitted and the matter went to court.
In December last year, Judge Boisie Henry Mbha at the Johannesburg High Court ruled it was up to the department not the school governing body, to determine the maximum capacity of a public school.
The school, which has one of the best teacher-pupil ratios of any public school in Gauteng, said it could take no more than 120 pupils into four Grade 1 classes.
The school head has been charged with "failure to carry out a lawful instruction", according to department spokesman Charles Phahlane.
Phahlane said Drysdale was not suspended.
The South African Principals Organisation's president Almarie van Zyl said: "We are a leadership development organisation and we cannot comment on this. It does not fall under our spectrum."
The National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa's president Ezra Ramasehla said: "The department is being hard on the principal. If the case was sorted out in court why should she go to a disciplinary hearing?
"The department is being hard on a well-performing school. How many such cases exist in the townships. Or how many cases of over admitting and nothing ever happens?" - monamat@sowetan.co.za
Principal to face disciplinary hearing
RIVONIA Primary School principal Carol Drysdale will today appear before an internal disciplinary hearing for insubordination.
Drysdale's woes started in February 2011 when the school placed a Grade 1 girl on the waiting list citing her parents' late application.
The Gauteng education department insisted the girl be admitted and the matter went to court.
In December last year, Judge Boisie Henry Mbha at the Johannesburg High Court ruled it was up to the department not the school governing body, to determine the maximum capacity of a public school.
The school, which has one of the best teacher-pupil ratios of any public school in Gauteng, said it could take no more than 120 pupils into four Grade 1 classes.
The school head has been charged with "failure to carry out a lawful instruction", according to department spokesman Charles Phahlane.
Phahlane said Drysdale was not suspended.
The South African Principals Organisation's president Almarie van Zyl said: "We are a leadership development organisation and we cannot comment on this. It does not fall under our spectrum."
The National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa's president Ezra Ramasehla said: "The department is being hard on the principal. If the case was sorted out in court why should she go to a disciplinary hearing?
"The department is being hard on a well-performing school. How many such cases exist in the townships. Or how many cases of over admitting and nothing ever happens?" - monamat@sowetan.co.za
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