Die Helderberg-gemeenskap se Basiese Onderwys en Opleiding vir Volwassenes (BOOV)-program, wat \u2019n jare lange instelling by Strand Sekond\u00eare Skool was, is op soek na \u2019n nuwe, permanente plek vir onderrig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shakoor Vallie, die dryfkrag agter die plaaslike tak en \u2019n stem vir die gemeenskap, het sy ontsteltenis uitgespreek oor die skool se onlangse besluit om \u201csy deure vir die aandskool te sluit\u201d. Vallie het verduidelik dat die program ses jaar gelede uit \u2019n behoefte wat deur onderwysers in die gemeenskap ge\u00efdentifiseer is by Strand Sekond\u00eare Skool ontstaan het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cN\u00e1 verskeie pogings, veral die afgelope ses weke, om \u2019n dispuut tussen die gemeenskap en die skoolbeheerliggaam (SBL) oor \u2019n beweerde wanbetaling deur die Departement van Ho\u00ebr Onderwys en Opleiding op te los, het die SBL besluit om die program te staak. Die SBL kon nie die oorspronklike kontrak met die departement, wat ses jaar gelede aangegaan is, verskaf nie. Hierdie besluit het teleurstelling in die gemeenskap veroorsaak, en vrae ontstaan oor die motivering daarvan en of die gemeenskap behoorlik in ag geneem is,\u201d het Vallie aan die koerant geskryf. \u201cDit is belangrik dat integriteit gehandhaaf word wanneer sulke drastiese besluite geneem word. \u2019n Gemeenskap kan nie sommer van \u2019n openbare instelling geskei word, terwyl daar terselfdertyd beweer word dat besluite in die belang van die skoolgemeenskap geneem word nie. Dit kom neer op die misbruik van mag onder die dekmantel van gemeenskapsbelang. \u2019n Deurdagte, kollektiewe besluitnemingsproses, wat alle rolspelers in ag neem, is \u2019n vereiste. Die WKOD moet \u2019n indringende ondersoek begin na die werklike stand van sake by ons skole en die bevoegdheid van skoolbeheerliggame om kontraktuele ooreenkomste te bestuur, evalueer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Vallie is die program sedert sy ontstaan \u2019n reusesukses en het dit met die eerste jaar \u2019n rekordinskrywing van 350 matrikulante besorg. Weens beperkte onderwysertoekenning kon daar egter slegs 150 studente geakkommodeer word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vanjaar het die program 20 matrikulante wat aandklasse bywoon, maar het meer as 50 navrae ontvang voordat verwarring weens die verandering van die onderrigplek ontstaan het. Vallie het verder verduidelik dat die sluiting van die program \u2019n groot leemte vir volwassenes en skoolverlaters sou laat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens \u2019n verteenwoordiger van die skool se SBL is \u2019n formele vergadering met Vallie en alle relevante belanghebbendes gehou, waar die SBL sy bekommernisse uitgespreek het. \u201cDit is van kardinale belang om daarop te let dat Strand Sekond\u00eare Skool nie \u2019n formele kontrak met die program het nie, aangesien hul ooreenkoms in 2020 be\u00ebindig is. Sedertdien is die program op die skoolterrein bedryf sonder die nodige dokumentasie,\u201d het die verteenwoordiger ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs \u2019n skoolgemeenskap is ons nie verplig om gemeenskapsorganisasies sonder behoorlike kontrakte te akkommodeer nie, aangesien hierdie re\u00ebling nie koste-effektief is nie. Ons prioriteit is om te fokus op die bou van die karakter en infrastruktuur van die skool, wat beduidende finansi\u00eble verliese gely het. Ons het voldoende kennis gegee rakende hierdie kwessies en die skool se algehele ontwikkeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die verteenwoordiger het verder ges\u00ea dat die SBL leerderwelstand en onderwys as prioriteit gestel het, en sekuriteitsrisiko\u2019s as rede aangevoer wat voortspruit uit onbeheerde toegang gedurende die aandskool. Nog meer, het die SBL die finansi\u00eble re\u00ebling met die program as ongunstig beskou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie SBL vra ook dat mnr. Vallie die besluite wat geneem is, respekteer,\u201d het die verteenwoordiger bygevoeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Millicent Merton, woordvoerder vir die WKOD, het die skool \u2019n kontraktuele ooreenkoms gehad vir die gebruik van sy fasiliteite vir die program van 2020 tot 2022. Volgens die ooreenkoms het die skool \u2019n maandelikse toelaag wat toegeken is vir opsigterdienste en nutsuitgawes, ontvang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie skool het egter onvoorsiene finansi\u00eble verliese gely weens skade wat tydens aandklasse opgedoen is, wat gelei het tot addisionele herstelkoste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verder was die maandelikse fooi onvoldoende om nutsuitgawes te dek, en agterstallige bedrae is ook opgeloop, het Merton ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNa die verstryking van die aanvanklike kontrak het die SBL \u2019n hersiene ooreenkoms voorgestel, maar die aanbod van \u2019n verminderde maandelikse toekenning is deur die skool as onvolhoubaar beskou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die program steeds \u2019n tuiste benodig, word aandklasse vir tyd en wyl in die Eagle-gebou aangebied. Dit, volgens Vallie, danksy die gewaardeerde ondersteuning van Attie Phillips en sy vrou \u201cwat meer insig toon rondom die dilemma wat die gemeenskap tans ervaar\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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