[caption id="attachment_99969" align="alignright" width="300"] READY TO LEARN: Delegates, from left, Alex Hall (St George's Prep), Lebogang Montjane (ISASA director) and Kevin Johnson (Varsity College) at the conference. Picture: FREDLIN ADRIAAN[/caption]
TEACHERS and pupils were becoming too scared to go to school because of the satanic game “Charlie Charlie”, an educational expert said at St George’s Preparatory School last night.
Education Safety and Governance Association managing director John Buswell was speaking on the sidelines of the annual Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA) deputy heads’ conference.
“We think that bad things don’t happen to good kids in good schools but whatever we see in a broader community, we see in private schools as well,” Buswell said.
“With the ‘ Charlie Charlie’ game, we’ve had a huge number of calls from Gauteng to the Eastern Cape, specifically affecting primary school pupils.
“We’ve got kids who are so scared that they don’t want to go back to school,” he said.
The theme of the conference was redefining traditions, which St George’s principal, Alex Hall, described as moving with technology.
“We can’t teach the way we did 10 years ago, we have to embrace technology,” Hall said.
ISASA executive director Lebogang Montjane said the conference was about sharing ideas and developing future leaders of schools.
More than 200 delegates attended the conference, which ends tomorrow. -Sashika Pillay and Siphokuhle Mkancu