BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Kalibu Academy director Michael Howard has been criticized for sending a rude letter to parents and guardians in which he has described parents who have not finished paying schools as “delinquent.”
In the letter, Howard alleges that some parents have been attacking the school management on social media as regards to fees structure and school rules.
“I can say the following: of all the critics not one has contacted the Academy before verbalizing on the social media. There are proper channels for solving legitimate grievances. The Court of Public opinion will not move the leadership of Kalibu Academy. Such behaviour is not the way to deal with issues and is actually immoral.
“Those parents who have most to say are often those parents who have not piad fees up to date. Remember parents, you are passing through and we remain. School rules are school rules. Every parent signs the list of school rules. You cannot then start complaining against the school and seeking to dismantle the rules to suit yourself or your kid,” the letter reads in part.
He added: “Now let me get down again to the serious issue of fees. The Academy is currently owed 60 million plus by delinquent parents many of who appear on social media complaining about the Academy. I think it would be very fair for me to publicise the names and amounts that delingquent parents owe.
Howard further instruct parents to be serious about the online lessons and that students who will fail what is currently being taught online will be required to repeat the academic year.
Reacting, commentators have accused the director of being confrontational and rude.
“You can bet on thus: Kamuzu Academy or Saint Andrews’s would never write to parents/guardians in such a rude, arrogant, unprofessional, patronizing and condescending manner. KA and Saints are owed large sums of money, too. The difference is that Saints and KA have class. Kalibu has a bully who, in all probability, writes letters to parents when high on some illicit substance.
“If this is how parents are spoken to, imagine what the students there go through at the hands of this person. It must be terrifying! Parents must uniet and confront this bully,” wrote Idriss Ali Nassah, a social commentator.
Some parents have argued that the school fails to address grievances because it has no Parents Teachers Association (PTA) as it is the case with almost all schools across the country.
The parents say they wrote the institution for the formation of a PTA as an attempt to create a proper parent teacher platform after observing so many issues that needed out attention but the Academy never responded.
Recently, the Academy’s director was also accused of practicing homosexuality with students at the institution.
