23 out of the 37 teachers at a Crossroads school have been charged with misconduct by the Western Cape Education Department.
|||Cape Town - Twenty-three out of the 37 teachers at a Crossroads school have been charged with misconduct by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED).
Two non-teaching staff members at Dr Nelson R Mandela High School were also charged, said Bronagh Casey, spokeswoman for Education MEC Donald Grant.
The school has been in the news since principal Linda Mnotoza’s return at the start of the school year.
Some teachers, parents and pupil representatives told the Cape Argus they no longer wanted him to be principal of the school.
They said he had charged parents a R200 fee despite the school being a no-fee school.
A group of teachers said they would not return to class until Mnotoza was removed. Casey said the department had investigated allegations made against the principal last year but found them to be unfounded
On January 21, teachers were issued with letters requiring them to provide reasons why misconduct charges should not be levelled against them.
Schooling returned to normal for a while but classes were again disrupted in February.
Casey said a notice for their disciplinary hearings with charge sheets and letters were presented to staff members on Monday and Friday.
Jonavon Rustin, provincial secretary of the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union, said the union was dealing with the allegations against the teachers.
Cape Argus