Basic education Minister Angie Motshekga has spoken out against parents that are not contributing to their children’s schools. eNCA
CAPE TOWN - Basic education Minister Angie Motshekga has spoken out against what she called absentee parents.
Parents are able to buy kids cellphones but they can’t buy them calculators if the school says so, it has just gone to the extreme
She said as the department planned to scrap the quintile funding system it was time for parents to take responsibility.
The quintile system seeks to allocate varying degrees of funding to schools based on their socio-economic condition.
Critics of the system, which was implemented in 1998, say its ranking structure is too complicated.
The department of basic education has now decided to the scrap the system in favour of a simpler fee or no-fee structure.
Motshekga said: “With time the criteria was no longer sustainable and that’s why for ease we’re saying just separate the schools to have fee paying schools and non-fee paying, and just say either parents can pay or they can’t pay.”
Motshekga said that parents with kids at no fee schools should not see it however as an excuse to not contribute where needed.
“Parents are able to buy kids cellphones but they can’t buy them calculators if the school says so, it has just gone to the extreme. There are things that schools require that government is not necessarily able to give them at that given time.”
Motshekga will this week table a proposal to parliament that encourages parents to become more active in their children’s education.-eNCA
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