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Salvos school believes in service
than profit
A CONCERNED parent accused the
Salvation Army High School (The National, June 19) of
operating for profit and not getting registered to enable Grade 10
students to sit for the written expression examination.
If the writer assumes the church-run school is operating for
profit, why did he/she enrol his/her child there instead of
other private schools or International Education Agency schools?
If the writer had attended the P&C meeting a day earlier, he/she
would have understood the difficulties the school was going
through to get registration as the National Capital District
Education Division is very unhelpful.
This school did not spring up overnight.
It has been in existence for many years but many parents
approached the Salvation Army to run the school.
The problem is the NCD Education Division did not carry out
inspection as required by the NCD Education Department despite
many requests by the school administration and the stakeholders.
So far, the school had been inspected once but there was no
follow-up second inspection as required.
We were waiting for that when the written expression examination
caught up with us.
We would like the writer not to lose hope and keep on praying that
the school will be registered.
However, the writer is free to transfer his/her child out of the
school if he/she thinks we operate for profit.
We feel we are providing alternative Christian quality education
to our future generation as we believe in service than profit.
Peter Akori
Teacher and
Salvationist,
Port Moresby
 
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