OPINIONISTA: Let’s galvanise our schools into lighthouses of knowledge

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The five years our children spend at high school are their most at-risk years, adolescence, that turbulent interregnum between childhood and adulthood. Surely this is a time when adolescents and the schools we send them to need more support from parents, not less?

On Monday night this week I sat in an empty hall with just more than 20 other parents at my son’s high school governing body annual general meeting. About 40 of us sat at the same time in the same school hall last week, but because we did not make the quorum of more than 100 parents, the meeting had to be rescheduled.

Teachers who had no clue about digital or e-learning had to improvise WhatsApp or Google classroom lessons. SGBs battled to get parents to pay school fees when they were at home during lockdown, while ensuring SGB-funded teachers had to be paid. The aim of SGBs, according to the 1996 Department of Education White Paper, was to foster democratic institutional management at school level.

 

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