City schools comply with extra lessons ban While most Bulawayo schools have complied with a recent government directive to stop conducting holiday and extra lessons, it was business as usual at Sizane High School in Pelandaba yesterday
While most Bulawayo schools have complied with a recent government directive to stop conducting holiday and extra lessons, it was business as usual at Sizane High School in Pelandaba yesterday

While most Bulawayo schools have complied with a recent government directive to stop conducting holiday and extra lessons, it was business as usual at Sizane High School in Pelandaba yesterday

Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter
SCHOOLS in Bulawayo have complied with a recent government directive for them to stop conducting holiday and extra lessons.
Recently, Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Dr Lazarus Dokora said holiday lessons had been banned as school administrators and teachers were using them to fleece parents of their hard-earned money.
However, after schools closed last week on Thursday, lessons resumed on Monday this week at some Bulawayo schools that include Founders, Sizane, Montrose, Pumula High and Mpopoma.

After Chronicle exposed the institutions that were in violation of the decree early this week, it was a different story yesterday. Our news crew visited the implicated schools and found out that they had stopped conducting the holiday lessons.

At Black Umfolosi Youth Centre where some Mpopoma High School pupils were having lessons on Monday, no learning was taking place yesterday. Those at the centre said no one had reported for school yesterday.

Bulawayo provincial education director Dan Moyo yesterday said it was against government’s directive for schools to be teaching during holidays.  He warned that anyone found in violation of that standing rule would be charged.

“As far as I am concerned, schools are closed. Schools that will be found guilty will be charged with misconduct,” he said.
Last week, the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe vowed to defy the government directive.

But Dr Dokora warned that anyone caught going against the directive risked being dismissed from the service.
Following the latest move by the schools to finally comply with the government’s directive, there are fears in some quarters that unscrupulous teachers may react by conducting lessons at private homes, a move that was also outlawed by the government.

Two years ago, government closed all illegal educational institutions that were sprouting in residential areas.

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