Suspended GSS Form Five Students Sit for Exams
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Monday December 12, 2016 16:23
GCC mayor Kagiso Thutlwe told council meeting last week that Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) was written by 2,598 students at the GSS.
“This arrangement was in place in a successful attempt to provide a conducive examination environment for the troubled learners while at the same time preventing conflict-prone interaction between learners and the larger GSS student body,” Thutlwe said.
This comes hardly after some students threatened to kill teachers and burn the school some time this year, resulting in some students being suspended. Some students had grouped themselves into gangs, and terrorised other students.
On primary school issues, the mayor said the increasing number of break-ins in most schools concern him. “Equipments relating to television sets, cameras, computers and accessories and other important materials are stolen and the culprits are not traceable. Of recent, Therisanyo and Ikageng had break-ins and most office doors, windows and burglar doors were destroyed. These incidents continue to happen despite presence of security guards in the affected schools,” he said.
On issues of health, the mayor said he is concerned that clinics continue to register increasing numbers of children who fall under above normal weight category with a total of between four to 60 cases being recorded per facility every month.
He advised councillors to encourage parents to adhere to feeding requirements of children to avoid severe cases of malnutrition and overweight children. “We have since started a programme called nutritional surveillance aimed at prevention and correction of nutritional status of the under-five years children,” he said.