Somabhula-Disgusted parents at Brunsguard Primary school in Somabhula (in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s home Midlands province area) have fired an onslaught at the school administration for incompetence.
This comes after the local school recorded zero percent for the past thirty(30) years, as ZimEye.com reveals. Parents with children learning at the school have since threatened to remove them next term, a development that will affect its sustainability.
According to displeased parents there was drama at the school as parents disrupted the main Annual general meeting (AGM) agenda accusing the teaching staffs of being incompetent, citing series of massive grade 7 failure rates. They alleged since Zimbabwe got its Independence in 1980,the school recorded dismal academic performance.
“I personally think the school should seek for divine intervention from prophets like Magaya and Makandiwa. The school administration got torrid time as (us) parents quizzed them for failing to troubleshoot the long failure rate problem.
“To be honest as parents we wonder why Brunsguard has failed to impress all these years. The school was built around 1977 by a commercial white farmer and by then it was one of the best farming schools attaining very good results. But at this juncture eeish, our pupils gets as far as grade 7 hardly constructing  a single simple English sentence let alone speaking in the language,” said the seemingly troubled parent .
Another source said most burning concerns by parents were raised at the school’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the institution last Thursday where she said a senior teacher; Mr Douglas Zvaravashe was on fire for absenting himself from school.
“I think there is need of serious inspection by the Education Ministry about the goings on here. Some teachers here willy-nilly abscond and come for lessons late as they first attend their farm fields. We are extremely worried because of the carefree attitude displayed by the tutors. We have every reason to care because these problems do kill the future of our children,” he said.
The wearisome parent who however said the community must not paint all the teachers at the school with one brush, appealed to the Ministry of Education to help them remove the rotten tomatoes before they spoil the whole basket failure of which he threatened to remove all her four children at the school.
The School head, Mr Dumisani Ndlela refused to comment and was quick to refer all questions to the District Education officer.
Several efforts to contact the Provincial Education Director (PED) Agness Gudo were fruitless as her mobile phone was not reachable by the time of going to print.