Principals demand food for their schools
Food has not been delivered as from last week
Principals of schools in the Ladysmith area handed over a memorandum of demands to the Department of Education today (April 17).
These schools fall under the Ladysmith Circuit Management Cluster and are part of the National School Nutrition Programme.
Headmasters came in their numbers to the Department of Education offices in Murchison Street, demanding to speak to the district director.
One of the burning issues is non-delivery of food since the schools re-opened after the Easter holidays.
The principals claim that, as a result of this issue, teaching and learning has been disrupted.
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“In the past week, we had to let the learners go home early, as we understand that we could not continue teaching them in the knowledge that they had not eaten anything. Some of these learners rely on the food provided at school and since there is none, they end up not attending classes,” said one principal.
They say they want the district director to forward their complaints to Province and they expect a viable solution as soon as possible.
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