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Parents whose children are deaf have been challenged to form support groups so as to share their experiences about their childrens impairment.
School head at the Francistown centre for the deaf education Ms Modiegi Mmila said in an interview that some of the parents did not even bother to check on their children in boarding school at the centre.
Some of the parents do not even know where their kids are schooling and this is a concern because they should be there for them but it seems they do not care about their kids.
Ms Mmila said if parents could start accepting their childrens plight society would start embracing them.
Society treats these kids like they are aliens but we should rather do something about our ignorance and we should take care of them because they are part of our community. She pointed out that parents lack of involvement in the school is worrying, adding that government employees dominate the Parents Teachers Association (PTA).
We usually invite the parents to the school and some do not even bother to come. She said when school closed and re-opened, the council vehicles transported the students to their homes and back and this also contributed to lack of participation by parents.
If the parents and their relatives do not bother to take care of the welfare of the students, who will? she asked rhetorically.
She cited the communication barrier between parents and the children as a contributing factor to poor involvement of the parents in their childrens education.
We have sign language awareness classes but the parents have not shown interest in learning sign language.
There should be many more programmes with subtitles on Btv; and sign language should also be taught as a subject in schools.
According to Ms Mmila, the schools catchment area stretches from Dibete to Kasane. There are only two such centres in Francistown and Ramotswa.
The Francistown centre has an enrolment of 106 students, and the classes range from nursery to standard seven. BOPA
Parents whose children are deaf have been challenged to form support groups so as to share their experiences about their childrens impairment.
School head at the Francistown centre for the deaf education Ms Modiegi Mmila said in an interview that some of the parents did not even bother to check on their children in boarding school at the centre.
Some of the parents do not even know where their kids are schooling and this is a concern because they should be there for them but it seems they do not care about their kids.
Ms Mmila said if parents could start accepting their childrens plight society would start embracing them.
Society treats these kids like they are aliens but we should rather do something about our ignorance and we should take care of them because they are part of our community. She pointed out that parents lack of involvement in the school is worrying, adding that government employees dominate the Parents Teachers Association (PTA).
We usually invite the parents to the school and some do not even bother to come. She said when school closed and re-opened, the council vehicles transported the students to their homes and back and this also contributed to lack of participation by parents.
If the parents and their relatives do not bother to take care of the welfare of the students, who will? she asked rhetorically.
She cited the communication barrier between parents and the children as a contributing factor to poor involvement of the parents in their childrens education.
We have sign language awareness classes but the parents have not shown interest in learning sign language.
There should be many more programmes with subtitles on Btv; and sign language should also be taught as a subject in schools.
According to Ms Mmila, the schools catchment area stretches from Dibete to Kasane. There are only two such centres in Francistown and Ramotswa.
The Francistown centre has an enrolment of 106 students, and the classes range from nursery to standard seven. BOPA