{"id":30402,"date":"2022-08-31T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court"},"modified":"2022-08-31T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T22:15:25","slug":"trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court","title":{"rendered":"Trouble at St Andrews Primary: Parents drag school to court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Parents of learners at St Andrews International Primary School in Blantyre have dragged the school to court over the illegal appointment of the board of trustees which the parents say is failing to take action on several issues including dismissal of teachers, allegations of an affair between headteacher and a junior employee, and the manhandling of a teacher at the school.<\/p>\n

The parents have also protested against the decision by the school to change uniform and logo without consulting parents. Over 80 parents have since obtained an injunction restraining eight trustees from acting or executing duties as trustees of St Andrews International Primary School.<\/p>\n

The injunction is dated August 22, 2022 and the school has been advised to file defence within 28 days or default judgement will be entered on the reliefs sought by the parents.<\/p>\n

The parents want the court to declare that the eight trustees, who are among defendants in the case, are illegal trustees and cannot continue running the affairs of the school. They also want the trustees to account for money and property of the school during their tenure of office.<\/p>\n

The parents have also asked the court to order the headteacher of the school, Naomi Charles, a defendant in the case, to write the Ministry of Education and ask the Local Government Authority to appoint a School Management Committee.<\/p>\n

In their application, the parents argue that the current trustees were appointed illegally and because of this they have not been accountable to parents who are in the dark on how the trust fund is being managed.<\/p>\n

Parents also argue that the board has been running the school in a laissez-faire manner as evidenced by failure to investigate allegations that the headteacher of the school is in an affair with her junior and failure to take action on the manhandling of a member of staff by guards who were allegedly acting on instructions from the headteacher.<\/p>\n

One of the documents submitted in court is a letter by the parents to the headteacher Naomi Charles dated July 5 in which the parents raised concerns over several issues at the school.<\/p>\n

Among the issues is the resignation of veteran teachers and suspension of some teachers as a result of investigations into alleged misconduct by the teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emotional distress caused to them during the period of suspension has been extreme with no comfort of being awarded to parents with regard to the integrity of teaching to our wards,\u201d reads part of the letter.<\/p>\n

According to the parents, the alleged affair between the headteacher and a junior employee was revealed through what was termed by the school as a \u201cmalicious email\u201d to parents.<\/p>\n

The school later informed parents it would investigate to find the author of the email. However, parents only learned later that some teachers had been suspended.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs parents whose children are under the care of some of the staff that have been suspended, and a headteacher who is alleged to be in an inappropriate relationship with a junior member of staff, we consider that the school should have reassured our confidence in the school by informing us the outcome of the investigations and what course of action was taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe voluntary departure of several excellent teachers and the yet to be warranted suspension or dismissal of other teachers leaves concerned parents dismayed and questioning the transparency and accountability of actions implemented by the school management.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are equally disappointed in the manner in which educated Malawian teachers have been persecuted especially at critical stages in our children\u2019s learning that materially affect their performance in defining assessments,\u201d the parents wrote. The school is yet to comment on the lawsuits.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. Parents of learners at St Andrews International Primary School in Blantyre have dragged the school to court over the illegal appointment of the board of trustees which the parents say is failing to take action on several issues including dismissal of teachers, allegations of an affair between headteacher and a junior employee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[4672,233,371,901,234,672],"class_list":["post-30402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-abuse","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-employment","tag-malawi","tag-schools"],"yoast_head":"\nTrouble at St Andrews Primary: Parents drag school to court - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parents of learners at St Andrews International Primary School in Blantyre have dragged the school to court over the ill ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trouble at St Andrews Primary: Parents drag school to court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parents of learners at St Andrews International Primary School in Blantyre have dragged the school to court over the ill ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T21:18:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-31T22:15:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_21-630fdd64ba390.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"395\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Trouble at St Andrews Primary: Parents drag school to court\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-31T21:18:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-31T22:15:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\"},\"wordCount\":630,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_21-630fdd64ba390.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"abuse\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Employment\",\"Malawi\",\"schools\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/trouble-at-st-andrews-primary-parents-drag-school-to-court\",\"name\":\"Trouble at St Andrews Primary: Parents drag school to court - 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