The head teacher of Golden Gate Senior Secondary School in Iwire Payam of Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State urges learners to avoid transferring from one school to another in the middle of the same academic year.
Oloya Paul Jackson says whenever each term begins some schools experience a decrease of learners while others experience increases due to learners’ relocation, Radio Emmanuel reported.
He cautions that transfer should not be a habit, but something to be done for a clear reason.
Paul says in order to realize good performance; learners should stick to their school system until the end of the year and transfer in the next academic year.
“Students happen to transfer from that particular arrangement to another; teacher then he may not be accommodated very well into the new teacher plan. That means at the end of the year or at the end of the course that student may not perform well. This rampant transfer can affect performance of a particular student, secondly this rampant transfer may also cover some indiscipline cases”, the head teacher explains.
Paul reveals that some learners decide to transfer when smuggling with the school materials after developing fear of being pursued.
He says some parents also transfer their children with the aim of dodging school fees payment.
“Some students will get opportunity of smuggling school materials like text books in particularly, so when they got them, they will decide to leave that school because they know if they continue in that school, the school will get way of trapping them so you will find the student escape. Then another thing am seeing there, some parents, so you may find some parents may take the child to a particular school before paying the fee they will decide to dodge to dodge because they may say the pupil sit I will pay later, now after that permission is granted you will find the next term the student is not their the student has been transfer to another school now they are dodging payment”, he notices.
The speaker made the remarks in a telephone interview on Thursday.