Silence Is A Crime

Not only is democracy about freedom of speech, but it is truly a crime not to speak out!

This blog single-handedly was the result that Herman Rudd immediately stopped with his sadistic behaviour toward the boys in his classes as posted in previous articles, although he denied that he did those things. He even tried to convince the board that he never did such things, but the boys who had to endure the subtle abuse and humiliation for decades told too many people. So his lies didn't pay off. Therefore, exposing Rudd worked. Our heart goes out to the boys, some now men, that have suffered irreparable psychological damage and there is no apology that can fix this type of damage from this outrageous tough love. Just to prove how Rudd behaved during his time as acting principle, he patrolled the school grounds in the afternoons to punish the boys that were still at school for their parents being late or not arriving until after 17.00, since he made the new school rule that boys had to be picked up before 14.00. He also gave Teacher Nadia hell with a Facebook page and nagged her day after day to do what he requested. Ask her, she has lots to tell. Her nerves couldn't take it anymore and this is absolutely not the behaviour of a mature person, let alone an acting principle, but once again proves what type of teachers Grey has.

As for Mrs Tracey Eksteen, who is actually an excellent teacher, but who has no clue how terrifying she is and that her bombastic way frightens people, not only scares the boys. The learners that have class with her are afraid of her, yet she believes and tells everybody she's only loud. "Only loud" is not at all how people perceive her. People perceive her as a bitch.

If Mr Leon Fourie stops trying to be a priest and actually starts teaching because he spends valuable time preaching from the Bible instead of teaching, he could be one of Grey's best teachers. The emotional element is a part of him and can only subside if he can learn to control it.

Mrs Lindy Van Jaarsveld doesn't realise that she is top of the list of bad teachers at Grey and has been very close in having been fired. She has numerous times been the topic of discussion at board meetings, because she truly sucks at teaching and the school had many complaints about her, but teachers are unfortunately protected by the new yet ignorant rules the department of education has implemented several years ago that makes it difficult to merely fire a teacher. The only reason she got the position of art teacher, was because of a personal issue Rudd had and because that was the only place she could be moved to, to distance her somewhat from the boys, not at all because she is good or valuable. There are much better art or AC teachers around.

Mr Dixie Dykman can go back to being the excellent teacher he used to be many, many, many moons ago, just by teaching the way he used to instead of reading from the textbook as he does these days, the current way at Grey.

Mynhardt and Strauss won't change. They are just plain unpleasant and indifferent. They don't really want to teach or be present at school. They're probably only in it for the salary, because they've never put in an effort to teach and their behaviour is that of a teacher who likes to punish not taking into account that a learner has rights. They probably don't even wonder what the learners pay for or what would happen to teachers if all the learners had to leave or stopped paying. They most definitely won't care that memories are built by the way people feel and if you get treated bad by a specific person, you have bad memories about that person.

Parents send their children to school with the understanding they'll be safe, properly educated and treated with respect. This is however not the way it is done at Grey. If a boy isn't mistreated in some way, disrespected in another way, then he is inappropriately kissed. To top it, the school allows the indecent teacher to finish the school year teaching as with Lize-Marié Swart. She should have stopped teaching immediately without pay. In all her statements, she never once mentioned that she regrets what she did or has learnt her lesson, but rather has learnt who not to tell. What about what she didn't disclose and in all probability did off the school grounds with the learner she kissed and/or others? Good educational institutions fire a teacher on the spot if they fraternise with learners, let alone kiss them and....

It's a shame that the school finds it easier to deny than to fix the problems to make Grey the school it used to be. It's fine if a teacher fucks up a learner for life, but a teacher may not be held accountable or better phrased, a teacher's feelings must be considered. hahaha. This blog is going nowhere! We'll keep on exercising freedom of speech. Keep the grievances coming.

P.S. Teachers and staff that do their job and a good job will not be discussed on this blog!