Parents are urged to buy their children’s stationery and uniform now, before they blow their bonus money.
For those parents who are not sure of what stationery their children might need next year, principal at the Morris Isaacson Secondary School, Steven Khanyile, encourages them to save the money so that they will have it should they need to purchase additional goods when schools start.
Khanyile said that it is important for parents not to spend all their money this festive season.
“As schools we would like to start teaching from the first day of school, therefore, we urge parents to organise themselves now because we normally find in January that they have spent all their money and by then the price of stationery has gone up.
“Children who do not have stationery delay the process of teaching,” he said.
Khanyile said that though in some no-fee schools, children get most of the required stationery, parents should still save for the additional school supplies they might not get which their child will need.
“Parents should understand that if their children don’t have the correct supplies, while we try to push teaching they get left behind.
“They then disrupt the other pupils as they try to borrow things they are short off during lessons.
“We urge parents to also start buying school uniforms now so that we can maintain order in our schools,” Khanyile said.
He said that it is best when all children are in uniform from day one in that way they are able to spot the outsiders and those people who come to cause troubles in schools.
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