There is a plan underway to have restrictions on the dressing code of the learners, especially females in 2022 academic year, discloses Mama Rabuna Be-ayinu, chairperson of Parent-Teacher Association for AIC Nursery and Primary School in Torit of Eastern Equatoria State.
She says that once they realize that a learner has shortened the uniform, they will definitely send the child out of the school.
The mother is also warning the male teachers to refrain from falling in love with the school girls, urging them to search for a partner from outside the school.
“Parents this year we want to change, we need you to buy a tall school uniform for your child, if the child steals your money to take the uniform for fitting, we are going to send the child home because it will show a bad message. The uniform should be at least tall, even if they say the clothes for old people are bad so it covers up to the knee. You teachers who are still young should stay warned, those teachers who are still having warm blood, don’t look into a school girl that you want to fall in love with, if you, better go and search from somewhere, this is your child, don’t think about her”, she cautions teachers.
The chairperson is urging parents to use the available resources in order to help in paying the child in school.
She said these resources will later in turn be a useful one in the future and will save parents from the line of poverty.
“Child if not given education in the right way, the child will turn out to be a bad one, you can even see some of these kind of children, their relatives are there, but they don’t give education to the child and you can see them spoiling. Cattle are there in the village but they don’t use this to enable the child to study. They just use the cattle to be seen as an image. But the aim of God is to enable the animals to help in paying the school fee. The income will not come now, but in the future, maybe the child will become a pilot and lift you up from your sufferings. Let us change”, the mother appeals to parents.
While Sikuku Ruth, Chief Inspector of Education in Torit Municipal Council is appealing to the entire community in Torit to have positive turn up whenever a particular school calls for parents’ meeting.
“The issue of meeting now has become a problem; I don’t know why when the meeting is called people won’t turn up? When they call for a meeting it doesn’t mean they are going to talk about the issue of money. There are some people when they hear that there is a meeting called they are going to talk about the issue of money, then they will say these people are now going to disturb us about the issue of school fees, it is not only fees, maybe the learners performed well in their exams”, she notices.
The speakers were talking during the graduation ceremony of 62 Top class learners of AIC Nursery and Primary School in Torit on Tuesday.