Government Orders Private Schools that have Opened Schools to Close Immediately

1. Sattar Ibrahim Geloo

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2. Thanks for this we r under pressure to look for money

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3. Natasha Choolwe Chilemena check this out

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4. This is a good move

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5. Mwango Chikopela see this

   • Emmanuel Chikopela Christmas ?

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6. Muchinda Chileka look

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   • David Mpande i thought as much

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7. A directive is better than expressing disappointment. Let’s monitor the coronavirus wave because I actually don’t see schools opening sooner

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8. I think we must be able to identify which Government policies or pronouncements should be binding on all schools and those which are only on public schools.
   Because one day the government will announce fees for secondary schools. Will it be binding even on private schools?

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   • Asa Amisi food for thought ?

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9. Examine their covid protocols before you throw a useless blanket rule on everyone. Kanshi imwe ma Zambian ni cani so? Ni punishment and threats of punishment day in day out.

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10. Chanda Chanda

    • Vinny Valentino good move

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11. Agatha Zulu Chisale

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12. Bamai Vanessa

    • Kalvin Pro Phiri iliche

    • Bamai Vanessa too much

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    • Kalvin Pro Phiri babafyate manigi ???

13. Close the schools. Life is more important than school. We can always educate our people in future but you can’t replace life

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14. QUOTE;Private schools should not be sacrificing pupils in the name of catching up with lost time amid a second wave of COVID -19 whose symptoms are yet to be studied by health experts and how to protect the pupils as they open schools on January 18, he explained.

    FIRST THE DIRECTIVE WAS GIVEN SO THAT TEACHERS CAN RECUPERATE AFTER THE LATE EXAMS, NANGA SECOND WAVE YANGENAMO BWANJI?

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15. This should have been done from the start.

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16. @Howard Kalinda you sound like a teacher who doesn’t want to go back to class!

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17. That’s the problem when you live your entire life getting a GRZ salary. You don’t understand the dynamics of business. Private schools never had any income for six months and never paid their teachers. If they open on 18 January there’s no parent that’ll pay school fees on the spot so it means teachers won’t have their January salaries. Some borrowed to expand their schools and risk their properties being seized. Bwana Jobbicks don’t just issue directives, learn to consult. When you’re in town meet your workers, have you ever met owners of private schools? Colleges have also opened and are also crowded. So what have you to say to that? This isn’t your country alone. You’ll have your salary whether you work or not, that isn’t the same with private schools

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18. Was the extension from 4th to 18th January due to Covid-19?

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19. Private schools always followed a different calendar especially those that do the Cambridge International Examinations. Next time you are going to tell them not to write the examinations which are international. The Health and District Education Management should have done the COVID 19 compliance assessments before issuing such useless threats. Please learn to communicate with people without issuing threats.
    Anyone complaining of the school fees now must be ashamed of themselves. Didn’t you know that schools were re opening in January? If you can’t afford, please put your kids in schools you can afford because expensive schools don’t guarantee good results.
    The problem is you want to compete with your neighbors and work mates that you are taking your children to private school. No…

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20. I hope government will be paying salaries in private schools. This country is unfortunate, we have story tellers, dreamers and those who eat with both hands at the helm of education. We hear of fellows who want teachers to become “entrepreneurs” and hold them down while attempting to to do their jobs. Personally, I am ashamed to be Zambian!

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21. Government should just give a concrete reason of opening of the school on the 18th coz its a very big challenge for the private schools to coup or manage in terms of salaries and other payments like ZRA, ground rents , water bills and other things

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22. Zimbabwe sharing the border with South Africa has gone into lockdown and announced schools are not opening anytime soon. There is a rise in Covid-19 cases and we should expect Zambia to follow suit.

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23. Katuta Kasafya Kapala

24. Whereas this policy directive is welcome, we however hope by January 18 the directive and any other after that will be based on epidemiological evidence on incidence of Covid among school children. For it is that to date, this is a grey area.

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25. Meanwhile pubs and churches where their are lunatics yelling nonsense in close proximity to one another are open!!

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26. Ethel Mate

    • Moosa Mate thanks love.

27. Mr Kalumba sit down.

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28. Thanks Dr. Jobbicks Kalumba. Life is more precious than money. You can replace money if lost but not life. Zimbabwe has just announced lockdown and all schools will not reopen anytime soon becoz of new wave of COVID 19.

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29. Tarino why are cases very high there in the land of your masters where you are stationed. Stop hating on your own kind you monkey

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30. YEAH CLOSE THE SCHOOLS AS MOTOR MOUTH SUGESTS
    THE MORE ILLTERATE AROUND THE VOTES PF GET
    DOWN WITH EDUCTATION UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION

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31. I agree with Kaizer, why are they letting mama inonge travelling everywhere under COVID when she is in the vulnerable category. Can Chilufya help on this!

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32. I thought private means minding their own business.

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