Dear Editor

The right to education for children is a globally recognised basic right and is enshrined in our constitution. Anyone who takes away this right from children must not only condemned but immediately arrested on a serious crime of destroying aspirations of future leaders.

Sadly, today pupils at Murowa School were sent back home as the teachers claim to be on strike.

Who is suffering here, is it the employer or the pupils? These are the very same teachers who spent the whole year getting paid for nothing.

These are the very same teachers whose results leaves one with a lot of questions on thier qualifications and capabilities. These are the very same teachers who spend 365 days living in school houses.

It is time for hard decisions and tough action. If the employer can pay the teachers what they want let it be done now. There is need for a reasonable compromise between the two parties failure to then the teachers must either resign or be fired for the sake of our kids.

Our children must not be used as political tools. We want our kids to learn and our teachers to earn. We can’t have salary negotiations from January to December. Parents must unite against this deliberate generational genocide.

Please we want our kids to learn. If those in government ensure this fundamental right please resign now. Heads must roll and big heads fall within the government as laziness and mercenary attitude is weeded out.

All civil servants must serve with the highest degree of professionalism and those responsible for their welfare must do so earnestly and honestly.

Concerned Parent

Murowa Zvishavane