We condemn in the strongest terms the incidence that took place on the 24th of May 2017 when children from Nkhwazi Primary School were excluded from lessons and school activities due to alleged non-payment of school fees. It is appalling to witness Nkhwazi putting a higher premium on school fees than the welfare of the children the school seeks to educate.
The matter should have remained a school to parent engagement in order to protect the children we are all seeking to support. The school should have taken time to issue CONFIDENTIAL letters to each of the parents that the school felt did not have their accounts in order.
In addition to the school’s failure to professionally communicate with parents, from a visit to the Nkhwazi accounts offices on the 24th of May, it is also clear that their management team is in desperate need of a point of sale machine and financial tracking systems that can reliably match fee bank deposits with individual child ledgers.
Due to the irresponsible, unprofessional and callous action of the school, our children now refuse to go to school as they feel they are not wanted there.
TO THE NKHWAZI MANAGEMENT TEAM: We condemn in the strongest terms the incidence that took place on the 24th of May 2017 when children from Nkhwazi Primary School were excluded from lessons and school activities due to alleged non-payment of school fees. It is appalling to witness Nkhwazi putting a higher premium on school fees than the welfare of the children the school seeks to educate. The matter should have remained a school to parent engagement in order to protect the children we are all seeking to support. Surely the school should have taken time to issue CONFIDENTIAL letters to each of the parents that the school felt did not have their accounts in order. In addition to the school’s failure to professionally communicate with parents, from a visit to the Nkhwazi accounts offices on the 24th of May, it is also clear that their management team is in desperate need of a point of sale machine and financial tracking systems that can reliably match fee bank deposits with individual child ledgers. Due to the irresponsible, unprofessional and callous action of the school, our children now refuse to go to school as they feel they are not wanted there. We are therefore demanding a public apology at the school assembly to all of the children that were pulled out of class at the soonest opportunity in order to remedy the destructive actions taken on the 24th of May. We also demand that the school issue a block refund to all aggrieved parents for teaching services not rendered by the school on the 24th of May. This amount should also cover the hours that our children refuse to go to school because of the school’s actions to ostracize them. Perhaps this demand will equal the supreme values of the school; money above child development. We on the other hand, would be happy to donate this refund to the PTA fund in order to ensure that the school invests in point of sale machines. We await a formal response from the Nkhwazi Management team regarding our demands.
