Laerskool Theresapark SGB defends move to scrap Afrikaans

When TimesLIVE visited the school on Friday morning, it was quiet, with no parents on site. Pupils could be heard shouting on the grounds while they played soccer.

The publication was informed that a group of protesters arrived earlier to hand over a memorandum to the school and left. A memo from the Bittereinders youth movement, saying they were authorised to speak on behalf of some parents, called for a departmental inquiry into the school and demanded that pupils be allowed to finish their schooling in Afrikaans.Tlhoaele said: “The SGB has never taken Afrikaans pupils to learn in a storeroom. We are not aware of that. The rumours are not true.”We are losing R2m in school fees we would have had from the classes catering for Afrikaans ...

“What we have heard is that the numbers of pupils taught in Afrikaans are too low. We are informed the SGB was saying they probably need to be transferred and placed at neighbouring schools.“At some point the school introduced Setswana and the number of pupils doing Setswana are also low. They are [apparently] also taught in repurposed areas, such as a room that was a store room, gym or any other space the school will deem fit to repurpose.

“It is not that the language is being discriminated against and they want it phased out of the school. No, education is about numbers. Numbers dictate how you manage the school environment.”

Some of it is not true my kids is also attending school there some of the parent's are laying the white children and their parents is abusing the non white children we also open a case against a parent because my boys are colored and they call them the k word and assaulted them

I agree... Ayishinshwe isiTswane be a medium of teaching

This would be illegal to terminate it.

Seeing who wrote this article . Defending the 'ANTI-Afrikaner' movement. knowing well that most Blacks do not pay school fees. Knowing well the move of white children was NOT negotiated but the forcing of them to attend English only classes!

Makes sense to scrap it though.

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