Top school taken to court over bullying claims

Mzilikazi Wa Afrika

THE alleged bullying incident at a prestigious Johannesburg girls’ school took a new twist this week when the parents of one of the learners took the school to court for trying to force their daughter out of the institution in the middle of the academic year. Roedean School for Girls, which obtained a 100% matric pass rate last year, tried to terminate its contract with the parents of the 12-year-old girl (whose name has been withheld because she is a minor) implicated in an alleged bullying incident last November and at the end of the first term of this academic year. The provincial department of education has condemned the move. Last year, three children – one of them the child of a senior government spokesperson, and another of a celebrity…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2023-05-14

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