By Staff Reporter | Zvishavane’s Dadaya High School parents have dragged Primary and Secondary Education minister, Lazarus Dokora to court over the new education curriculum he has introduced.
The parents, through their School Development Committee (SDC) are accusing Dokora of imposing the new curriculum on their children without consultations.
The School’s SDC through its lawyers, Mutendi, Mudisi and Shumba Legal Practitioners, on Friday filed an urgent chamber application at the Bulawayo High Court citing Dokora and the school headmaster as respondents.
The parents are arguing that the new curriculum should be suspended until proper consultations have been done.
In his founding affidavit, the school’s SDC chairperson, Leopold Mudisi, argued that the implementation of the new curriculum compromised the education delivery system.
“The respondents made a complete paradigm shift from the conventional subjects offered at the school.
Subjects such as physical education, sport and mass displays have been made compulsory.
The subject combinations in terms of a circular made available to parents makes it impossible for pupils to fit into the existing system which the respondents are trying to phase out,” he said.
He further stated that the new curriculum was “an ambitious” project which would unnecessarily burden teachers and compromise the future of learners.
“The overhaul of the curriculum is impractical. The learning time for conventional subjects was always not enough and thus to introduce new subjects is ambitious and sounds myopic. There are no qualified teachers at the school to teach the new subjects and inevitably it will affect the pupils’ performance,” he said.
The parents said there was no way curriculum changes can be implemented without consultations.
They said since they were responsible for payment of school fees and the future of their children, they were supposed to be consulted.
“The parents are the guardians of these pupils since they are minors and as such their views and recommendations are of paramount importance. The Government does not offer grants for students and it is the parents who have the burden of financing the education of their children,” said Mudisi.
On Thursday the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe held a stakeholders meeting where it also resolved to sue Dokora.
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His Excellency VaMugabe pliz fire this guy,he is a satanic agent
Well done parents! Much applause and respect. The state does not own your children and policy formulation regarding their future should always include parental consultations and input.
The parent is the child’s first teacher. Together with professional teachers, their responsibility to guide and mild their children’s growth does not end with the payment of school fees.
Very happy and proud to see parents take an active interest in their children’s education.
Dakota, it goes without saying, is totally offside and NO, we will not exchange our country’s identity in exchange for Islamization by mortgaging our ministry of education to the nation of Islam exchange for their money.
If indeed they wish to assist us then let them do so without any strings attached. If they loan us money, may they do so at fair market rates. That is all we need.
Don’t take their money!