Venson threatens teachers

PALAPYE: The Minister of Education and Skills Development, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi has threatened to sack teachers who link the improvement of their welfare to good examination results. Speaking during the BIUST National Guidance and Counselling Open Day on Friday, she said she is aware that there are teachers who say examination results will continue to drop until government addresses their grievances.

"Yo ke tla mo fitlhelang are ene o lekanya tiro le madi o tla ya ga mmagwe, I am telling you," she said. She was speaking after her ministry came under fire over the appalling JCE exam results. What irked her most is that fingers are pointed at the ministry management while about 4,000 teachers received a blue print of the 2009 JCE syllabus to implement but this never happened. She said that because the exam results are poor, teachers deny knowledge of the syllabus.