Online Reporter
WHAT is this we hear about a school head in that little town named after a spring that never dries up, whose romantic union with his deputy has set tongues wagging?
Blabber thought the pair would keep their shenanigans between the sheets.
Instead, word reaching Yours Truly is that even the management of funds at the institution is in shambles, all because the two now work in unison to pocket what is not theirs.
Yours Truly has nothing against the couple, but journalism keeps Blabber asking why this barefaced pair would shamelessly inflate the price of a CCTV set. Worse still, they sourced three questionable quotations, now in Blabber’s possession, from backyard ghetto service providers.
No wonder they say when two elephants fight, the grass suffers.
Apparently the grass suffers the same fate when two elephants make love! So much for the first family of our provincial education sector.
Just when Blabber wanted to believe the drama was limited to the town with the everlasting spring, Yours Truly learnt that teachers are taking leave days in droves at that old primary school in the sprawling suburb whose name, again, has something to do with water.
Yes, that primary school where, at least by its name, they once hit the mark. The school head there is said to be so abusive that staff are treated like children, not adults.
To escape such management, teachers are taking their leave days in numbers.
One wonders what will become of learning standards when we are deep into the second and most crucial term of the year.
What disturbs most is that this is the same head who was moved from a school in one of our leafy suburbs.
There, she made futile and illogical attempts to refuse the transfer, even though she was only serving in an acting capacity.
Blabber is aware that when she was moved to another school in that same water-named suburb, parents would have none of it.
She was instantly shifted to her current station, where she now treats staff as if they were her own children.
As an elder in our community, Blabber can only warn her to change her ways and treat subordinates as fellow employees, not her children. After all, experience has shown us countless cases where cruel and unsympathetic leadership in the workplace ends in misery.
I rest my case!
