Ill-mannered children turn good schools into bad ones

I feel privileged to write this letter about how the culture of sex and rape is destroying young girls and boys in our schools.

October 11, 2019

Zaid Khumalo 1 minute read

Sonqoba Primary School’s computer lab has been stripped of all its 42 laptops.

The school has ceased to be a place where parents send their children to seek knowledge but to learn about the deviant behaviour of ill-mannered children.

We have learners at some schools who were badly raised, who come from broken homes where there is neither order nor respect. Many of these children then bring their ill-mannered baggage to the school and affect other children with it, thus turning an otherwise good school into a bad school.

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