School For The Deaf records 100% fail rate

MBABANE — In their first Junior Certificate examinations, the School For the Deaf High School recorded a 100 per cent fail rate.

Their motto is ‘be the best you can be,’ however due to a some challenges the school faced, it struggled to perform to its best.

Interestingly in the Swaziland Primary Certificate the School for The Deaf Primary School attained a 100 per cent pass rate.

Fourteen pupils sat for the JC examination but none passed yet in the primary certificate six had sat for the exams with one of them getting a first while two got second class passes and three managed to get third class passes.

Explaining the outcome of the results, Director of Education Dr Sibongile Mntshali-Dlamini said there was still a lot of work to be done in order for the school to achieve better results.

"Some of the teachers we have are not properly trained in the sign language that the pupils use and, in some instances, you find that they only have one translator so we have a challenge there," said Dlamini.

She said they further had a lot of work to do with the Examinations Council of Swaziland in order to structure the exams in a manner that was more suitable.

"However, we are not too worried. This was the first year in which we had introduced the exams at the high school and we shall have to conduct more training and engage better-qualified teachers in order for the school to perform better," said Dlamini.

There was no immediate comment from the principal of the school Zodwa Thwala as she was reportedly not at the school yesterday and her phone rang unanswered for the better part of the day.

The school is situated at Matsetsa.

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