Hi All
In June 2010 my husband and I decided to open a small primary school on our smallholding in Benoni. We completed all the required registrations by December, including with the Gauteng Education Department, NPO and SACE.
12 January we opened with 8 students, and starting the new term on 11 April, we will be 23 enrolled students. Our desire is to reach out to our community and introduce children to excellence in education, on an academic level as well as influeincing their lives positively. We want to teach life skills and change the lives of these children. Most of them have absent fathers, so how can one expect them to learn the values which a father is expected teach his children? Mothers play a vital role, but a father figure is critical for children, and especially teenagers.
We are in our fourth month and amongst the many lessons we learnt to date, we have t contend with parents who cannot pay their school fees, minimal as it is. How does one deal with such parents?
