School holidays are approaching…Lets start preparing for the “exams term”

Students at various schools scattered around Mzilikazi, Makokoba, Barboufields, Nguboyenja and Thorngrove have just finished sitting for their mid year examinations. From what I have gathered this time around there was some order at schools in terms of the administration of exams.
However, knowing the above mentioned suburbs as some of the poorest and were low income earners stay I wish to point out that parents, guardians, teachers and school development associations must start to work together in order to prepare for the final and third term.
The third term is the most crucial in the school calendar. Grade seven, form four and upper six students will be writing their national public examinations. We do not want to fool ourselves that things will be alright and convince ourselves that pupils will write these examinations without any foreseen or unforeseen challenges. Those who follow this blog might be aware that I once wrote an entry on the acrimony between parents and teachers at Mzilikazi high school over teacher incentives.
Teachers have been disappointed by the latest pay hike by the government and may decide to hit back during or as we approach the sitting of national public examinations. To any parent or guardian worth their salt it is obvious that given the present state of affairs in the country they need to invest more (monetary wise) in the education of their children.
As residents of the aforementioned areas we do not wish to complain about not having enough sons and daughters from our area in positions of leadership because we did not get proper education. I implore the major stakeholders to use this holiday period to reach a consensus on key issues pertinent to teachers’ remuneration and the guarantee of full teacher service at exam time.