Parents, teachers must work as team - Molefe

KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent | Wednesday September 16, 2009 00:00

Molefe was speaking at the Tashatha Community Junior Secondary School (CJSS) prize giving ceremony held under the theme: 'Recession: A challenge to excellence in quality education.'

'Schools such as yours could revive gardening and grow vegetables to ensure a sustainable feeding programme for pupils at the same time imparting agro-business skills which they can use later on in life to be self-reliant.

Teachers alone will not be able to succeed without the support of parents.

Unfortunately, there are some parents who fail to participate in activities intended to enhance the welfare of their children', said Molefe.

'BBS will continue to support schools such as Tashatha CJSS to achieve its ambitions of molding responsible and educated future leaders. We regard our participation in community building activities as vital, given the fact that we are an indigenous institution whose future is eternally interwoven with that of our people,' said Molefe.

Meanwhile, school headmaster Ofetotswe Tina stated that in this year's mid term results, the school recorded 8As, 45 Bs, 82 Cs and 93 Ds. 'This is worrying because we targeted the quantity of 90 percent and quality of 40 percent pass but during the mid-year exams, we achieved a quantity of only 23 percent and a quality of 32 percent pass.

'During this time last year, we had 56 Ds but this number increased during the final examinations, so we also expect the current 93 Ds to increase during the final Form Three exams.

This poor performance can also be attributed to parents who fail to get involved in their students schoolwork. For instance, parents did not come for Parents Day. The same parents did not come to collect their children's reports even on announcements were made through the radio,' said Tina.

The school head also stated that parents do not pay for their children's school-fees saying that by last month, only 176 students had their fees paid while 303 students did not pay.

He warned them that they would not be allowed to proceed to senior secondary schools unless they paid the fees.

As regards the awards, Ndumo Conscious, a Form Three student walked away with the first prize for Setswana and Design & Technology.

Prudence Oatlhotse, also a Form Three student, scooped first prize for Social Studies, Moral Education and chess.

At the end of the prize-giving ceremony, BBS donated a photocopier to Tashatha CJSS.