The result means that 85 out of the 650 students who sat for the examination qualify for tertiary education. It has never happened in the history of this country for a school to perform that badly. This should wake up even a sleeping goliath that something is wrong. It was not the first time the school made headlines. When the school opened, it was discovered that the contractors of the buildings had not used brick-force to strengthen the walls. Due to poor construction, the students were forced to stay at home for the first term of form four, before a decision was made for them to go and attend classes in Maun. But the move was not helpful as in Maun, the Shakawe group was treated like second-class students as hey had no access to classrooms, laboratories, and the library.
The Maun school was also closed at a later stage, and the students returned to Shakawe where they found an even worse situation – there were no laboratories, teachers and library. Venson-Moitoi, the minister of Education and Skills Development did not dispute all this.
