On 18 March another school fight broke out again close to Hoërskool die Burger, which allegedly was attended by about 150 pupils according to an eyewitness.
This comes hot on the heels of a fight two weeks ago between two female pupils in which one girl ended up in hospital with potential brain damage.
When the Record phoned the school on the day, their offices unfortunately were closed already.
On 19 March the Record did get hold of the school but the headmaster, Basie Smit was on leave and the Deputy Headmaster was not available. The secretary who answered the phone did manage to put the Record through to a Gert Bezuidenhout who is in charge of discipline at the school.
Bezuidenhout told the Record that he was aware of the incident but that it involved two girls in plain clothes and the third a female pupil. He did not reveal though whether the third girl was a pupil of Hoërskool Die Burger.
He also pointed out the fact again, as was the case in the previous fight, that it happened after school.
He did not want to answer the Record’s question of whether a system could be put in place where this sort of behaviour could be curbed. He repeatedly interrupted the conversation claiming the Record’s previous reporting was “verdraaid” (twisted) and “snert” (rubbish) even though the Record published the Headmaster and both sets of parents involved in the incident’s versions.
On the Record’s website a pupil from the school vehemently defended the school, saying that he/ she “just want to say that the school has a working discipline system, our education is on a good standard. I honestly don’t think people from outside can judge! When kids fight its their decision to do so. This fight did not happen on school grounds, so I don’t think it is the school’s problem. This is the first fight in a very long time – no need to write a book hey?” (sic).
It is assumed that this pupil is unaware of the previous fight two weeks ago, which caused an uproar among parents, pupils and ex-pupils on the Record website’s comment platform.
