Fees to help pay teachers

A SECONDARY school on Karkar Island in Madang is charging K800 in school project fee because almost all its teachers are not on payroll.
Ten out of the 12 teachers at Dangsai High School are not on payroll and have been struggling over the last three years.
Deputy headmaster Kenny Tart said parents understood the needs those teachers and the school has and complied by paying the project fees imposed.
Sumkar MP Chris Nangoi advised the principal Philip Par to get the list of the teachers and he as Vice-Minister for Education would follow up with the issue.
The issue of the teachers’ pay was raised at the school ground yesterday when Nangoi went to deliver a school truck for the school.
Dangsai got high school status in 2015 and enrolled its first grade nine students in 2016.
Now it has four grade nine and four grade 10 classes with more than 450 students.
Madang education director Moses Sariki said Madang has more primary schools and less high and second schools.
He said Dangsai was one of primary schools chosen back then to upgrade into high school level and it started off from nowhere.
Karkar Island has more population and more children crowding into Karkar secondary school so the provincial education department decided to elevate the school.