More questions surround Shakawe students� future :: Mmegi Online

The Okavango community still has reservations and questions, although it has accepted the Ministry of Education and Skills Development’s recent turnaround allowing former Shakawe Senior Secondary School students to go back to school, area Member of Parliament, Bagalatia Arone has said.

Months after its point-blank refusal to allow students to repeat their Form Four and Form Five, the Ministry this week was back in the Shakawe community conceding to the idea. In a Kgotla meeting on Monday, acting minister, Mokgweetsi Masisi, announced that the former students would, from September 3, be allowed back into classrooms to repeat their senior schooling.

The students troubles stretch back to last year, when they missed two terms during their Form Four studies due to delays in the completion of the school as well as fire incidents at Maun SSS, at which they were hosted while the Shakawe school was being completed. The fire incidents meant that their host school was closed and the students were sent back home.

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