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Testimony of Petunia Mkwanazi
(Petunia Mkwanazi is the mother of Daniel Nkabinde and Shaun Mkwanazi who currently attend Blue Mountain College)
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My name is Petunia Mkwanazi. I have x2 teenage boys that were admitted at Blue Mountain College last year July {2008}. I learnt about the school through a colleague who had her son at the same school. The main reason for me to take my boys out of a school in Pretoria city to Blue Mountain College is the following: The boy’s school work was deteriorating by the day, home work and projects were not supervised, no provision for extra classes for children who desperately needed attention, peer pressure on drugs and alcohol and bunking school very high, teachers not attending classes on allocated periods, teachers not marking nor commenting on school work, the children were not taught how to talk to elders,the children had no respect towards elders and friends and the children watched too much TV while always on phones and playing music loud. The few months they spent at Blue Mountain College had a huge positive impact on their lives and personalities viz: Dedication to school work improved, behaviour changed to the better, respect improved, difference between wrong and right taught, discipline, improved and better results on school work, less exposure to bad things seen daily on TV and heard over the radio and knowing how and when to pray. |