School goes to court over dagga-smoking boys

By Tando Mfengwana
10 November 2006


A Port Elizabeth school filed an application to the high court to get the Eastern Cape Education department to decide whether or not to expel two school boys.

The two boys were caught while smoking dagga on the school’s premises.

Alexander Road High School application was heard on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the school received the department’s decision.

The department said that the school should not expel the boys.

Principal Peter Manser said the application from the school was to get the department to make a decision and apply the SA School Act, according to the Cape Times.

Manner was relieved that a decision had been made although the school’s governing body had recommended they’d be expelled.

The report says both boys who are under 18 admitted to their misconduct on August 7 this year.

The boys were suspended for 14 days.

They were later readmitted because of the department’s failure to make a decision on the matter.

The court's ruling was that the department had until Monday to make a decision on the boys’ transgression.