Protest at school

By BERRY DINGHAN
SOME unhappy parents and guardians of students attending Kilakila Secondary School (KSS) staged a protest against the school administration over the way it was handling and managing its affairs.
Monday’s protest was staged outside the school gate when they were stopped by security guards and police.
Protest leaders Brian Osama, Helen Ilivitaro and David Simona claimed that the school administration was running down the biggest school in the National Capital District. Osama said the overall performance of the school over the years was unsatisfactory, with grade 12s not getting placements at tertiary institutions, deteriorating teachers’ houses and classrooms, breakdown in discipline including burning down of a classroom in 2018, recruitment of expatriate teachers, no record of how TFF funds were used and allegations of biasness in awarding school contracts.
He also questioned the whereabouts of a 15-seater bus.
School principal Herman Panai denied the allegations, saying they were baseless, unfounded and misleading and the people behind the protest were pursuing their own agendas.
He said grade 12s were doing better currently with many receiving places in tertiary institutions, with the overall performance better under his 12-year tenure.
Panai said there were many impact projects in the school, including a new sealed road, a mini grandstand, three blocks of 6×1 classroom buildings, three toilet blocks, sealed assembly grounds and two new teachers’ houses in the second phase of its 10-year development plan.