Answer to Question #311270 in English for FADO

Question

QUESTION 2: MINUTES OF A MEETING

BACKGROUND

Mveledzo Comprehensive College stakeholders are holding a meeting to discuss strategies to instill discipline because of the several challenges such as high failure rate, absenteeism, bunking of classes, and gangsterism taking place at the school. As the Secretary of the School Governing Body, you are requested to take minutes of the meeting.

Answer 1

Some boys are engaged in gangsterism activities

which result in endless fights during school hours.

All these things make our school to be an

unconducive environment for effective teaching

and learning. To be honest with you, your children

are rude and disrespectful to their teachers.

Ms Delport: I disagree with you, sir. You and your teachers are

the cause of all these problems. Your teachers

don’t attend classes and they always arrive late at

school. There are rumours going around here that

some male teachers are in love with our school

girls. How do you expect proper teaching and

learning to take place under such circumstances?

Ms Ndabeni: Ms Delport, you are just making unrealistic

assumptions about these matters. If I may ask, do

you have any evidence of what you are saying?

Our children are ill-disciplined and they must be

corrected. I mean thrashing them!!!

Ntando: Corporal punishment must be abolished in our

school. I regard corporal punishment as one way

or another form of violence against children. My

colleagues, let’s resort to other mechanisms to

curb this unacceptable behavior of our children.

Ms Moloi: We need to make well-informed decisions in our

discussions. We can’t afford to be misled by these

spoiled brats. These children must be thrashed!

The Bible clearly indicates that you spare the rod

and spoil the child.

Mr Sondlana: In this day and age, this is absolutely uncalled for!

Corporal punishment escalates into a serious

physical assault. We don’t want to build a violent