Tom Manthata

"You find that our SGBs, that it school governing bodies, themselves cannot match, the school principal cannot match the teachers, let alone that, in some cases they cannot match the very children that they are supposed to help or assist, so its that kind of free for all scenario"

"The teachers are playing truant, teachers will play sick, and teachers so know how many days they are entitled to for leave that the principal or the school governing body are unable to deal with them"

"But fortunately the teachers some of them will know that they have to be at work. The question is what do they do, do they have the capacity? [...], so let the government assist the teachers. The government has not engaged them in development projects at all"

"These schools where there is no order where there is no accountability, these are the schools where parents do not match up the demands of their children"

"Parents do not visit schools. Sometimes even where the schools have occasions where they want the support of the community they are just not there at all"

"Let the ward councilor, let the church people, let the professional in and around the school show interest in the schools not the school governing body only"

"Until we do that we are unable to understand what we need or expect of children"