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According to the GDE, the educator involved and learners who witnessed the incident will receive counselling from a psycho-social support team which was dispatched to the school.
Just a few months after the Eldorado Park Secondary School principal, Marlon Louw was cleared of charges relating to a ‘racial abuse’ incident at the school, the ‘Blue School’ has hit the headlines again. The school boasts the reputation of consistently achieving the highest matric pass rate but has been hard-hit by controversy recently.
A week ago, a mobile classroom was torched and the cause of the blaze is yet to be determined. On September 12, a learner at the school faced charges after allegedly having drawn a firearm at a teacher whom he threatened to shoot, according to a press statement released by the Gauteng Department of Education.
Fortunately for all concerned, the teacher managed to disarm the gun-wielding youth and handed the weapon to the Eldorado Park Police Station across the road.
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A day following the incident, the 15-year-old Grade Eight learner was arrested by the Eldorado Park police on charges of pointing a firearm and being in possession of a dangerous weapon, a black Powerline Gas Gun.
Subsequent to this, the errant learner was suspended by the School Governing Body and appeared before the Kliptown Magistrate Court on the charges indicated above.
The member of the executive committee for education, Panyaza Lesufi came out strongly against the incident and said, “We strongly condemn any acts of learner misconduct, which seeks to undermine the dignity of both learners and educators.”
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Violence in our schools are receiving public scrutiny and social media is bombarded with acts of bullying by learners against each other and teachers who bear the brunt of these attacks, and often, as has been the case in the North West a week ago, with fatal consequences.
According to the GDE, the educator involved and learners who witnessed the incident will receive counselling from a psycho-social support team which was dispatched to the school.
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