Oneeya classes resume
Parents reached an agreement with the school to look at alternative accommodation.
Oneeya Combined School learners in the Omusati Region's Okalongo constituency resumed classes yesterday, after a boycott initiated by parents on Tuesday.
Omusati education director Laban Shapange held an urgent meeting with the parents at the school on Wednesday, and told them they had violated the country's education laws which do not allow anybody to deny a child access to education.
The parents on Tuesday withdrew their children from classes in protest over the revised curriculum that led to the removal of grade 10 classes from the school at the beginning of the academic year.
Spokesperson for the parents' committee, Joshua Nghishiikoh, confirmed yesterday that the children have resumed their classes as per an agreement reached between the parents and Shapange during Wednesday's meeting.
Twenty-five grade 10 children from Oneeya have been transferred to the Uushwa Combined School and they are said to be living in a shack near cuca shops at Uushwa - a situation condemned by the parents.
This situation, Nghishiikoh said, angered the parents and prompted them to withdraw their children from the school.
Shapange and the parents agreed that the children resume classes, provided that his office, along parent representatives, follow up on the living conditions of their children at Uushwa, in order to offer them possible assistance.
“The issue is that we want grade 10 to remain at Oneeya, as our children are currently travelling a long distance of about 20 kilometres to Uushwa Combined School, the nearest school with grade 10,” Nghishiikoh had earlier narrated.
He said parents last month petitioned the office of the local inspector of education and that of the regional education director to revoke the decision for Oneeya not to offer grade 10 classes this year.
The parents withdrew their children from the school to express their anger over the introduction of the new curriculum and to force the regional education office to grant them a platform for discussion.
Oneeya had offered classes from grades 0 to 10 previously.
NAMPA
Omusati education director Laban Shapange held an urgent meeting with the parents at the school on Wednesday, and told them they had violated the country's education laws which do not allow anybody to deny a child access to education.
The parents on Tuesday withdrew their children from classes in protest over the revised curriculum that led to the removal of grade 10 classes from the school at the beginning of the academic year.
Spokesperson for the parents' committee, Joshua Nghishiikoh, confirmed yesterday that the children have resumed their classes as per an agreement reached between the parents and Shapange during Wednesday's meeting.
Twenty-five grade 10 children from Oneeya have been transferred to the Uushwa Combined School and they are said to be living in a shack near cuca shops at Uushwa - a situation condemned by the parents.
This situation, Nghishiikoh said, angered the parents and prompted them to withdraw their children from the school.
Shapange and the parents agreed that the children resume classes, provided that his office, along parent representatives, follow up on the living conditions of their children at Uushwa, in order to offer them possible assistance.
“The issue is that we want grade 10 to remain at Oneeya, as our children are currently travelling a long distance of about 20 kilometres to Uushwa Combined School, the nearest school with grade 10,” Nghishiikoh had earlier narrated.
He said parents last month petitioned the office of the local inspector of education and that of the regional education director to revoke the decision for Oneeya not to offer grade 10 classes this year.
The parents withdrew their children from the school to express their anger over the introduction of the new curriculum and to force the regional education office to grant them a platform for discussion.
Oneeya had offered classes from grades 0 to 10 previously.
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