DWALILE PRIMARY FAILURES DILEMMA

MBABANE – Dwalile Primary School pupils, who failed Grade VII, are faced with a dilemma as it is unclear if they will be allowed to do the same class for the fourth time.

This is because the country’s Free Primary Education (FPE) Programme stipulates that government can only pay for a child in the same class twice and not more than that.
Another dilemma is that some of the parents feel that the pupils who failed many times should go back to Grade VI in order to refresh their minds and further change psychologically.

At the same time, there is a concern that most of them are now old and cannot be made to go to Grade VI.
Dwalile was among the 20 worst performing schools in Grade VII after recording 41 failures last year and the Deputy Head teacher, Ernest Dlamini, blamed the poor results on previous cases where the school was accused of malpractice.

After a malpractice incident in 2014, the pupils were made to repeat the same class the following year (2015) where most of them failed again.
They then had to repeat the same class last year (2016) where 41 failures were recorded.
Dlamini said the fact that the class of 2016 still had some of the pupils who were involved in the malpractice in 2014 contributed immensely to the performance last year.

He said a meeting would be held with teachers and parents to discuss if it would be practical to have the pupils do the same class, in essence, for the fourth time.

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