Kisarawe village leadership plans to sue parents denying their children education

Masaki Village Chairman in Kisarawe District, Coast Region, Ramadhani Mintanga has said it will take to court parents who fail to take their children to secondary schools under the pretext of poverty.

The warning was sounded recently during Standard Seven graduation ceremony held at Masaki Primary School at the school grounds in the village.

Mintanga called on the parents to get prepared to take their children to school when they are selected to join Form One instead of spending their money for staging dances for the children.

`Prepare your children for schooling instead of staging local dances if you wish them the best. I have seen many children loitering in the village though they had passed the national Standard Seven examinations,` he said.

He said many parents in the village were failing to take their children to school under the pretext of poverty, while they were spending a lot of money for ngomas.

The chairman said that he would like to see his village had educated people from primary school to university instead of loiterers who missed education after the parents failed to take them to schools.

Earlier, the school head teacher, Innocent Muyebe said during the ceremony, 88 out of 155 children who had started Standard One in 2001, succeeded to complete primary school education this year after sitting for the national exams.

The rest of the children failed in completing classes due to various reasons, including absenteeism, deaths and transfers.

Meanwhile, the Dar based Automobile Association of Tanzania (AAT) has agreed to be the patron of the school after it was requested by the parents.

The association�s supervisor, Athumani Hamisi on behalf of AAT deputy president Satinder Singh Birdi said during the ceremony that the association would help the school financially to solve its problems and it would also seek donors.

The school had various problems including shortages of teachers� houses, classrooms, desks, books, library, food, water and lacked toilets.