Dear Editor,

For the seventh time another teacher at the Vryman’s Erven Secondary School in New Amsterdam has felt the wrath of a society infected by many youths that have no direction as to the paths that they are going in life. The last time it was the acting Headmistress, banged in the head for asking a stranger (a male) to stop playing cards in a Grade Ten classroom and leave the school plant immediately. This time, on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 another senior member of staff (a female) was cuffed in the mouth by a male ex-student of the school who decided to find himself in one of the Grade Nine classrooms interacting with female students along with three other of his colleagues who accompanied him on the trip to the school.

It is a regular habit over the past couple of years for strangers, particularly boys, young boys, drug addicts to visit the school especially during the afternoon hours and during the lunch hour (11:15-12:10) to visit their girlfriends, to make girlfriends, to cause mischief around the school plant, and most recently to beat up our teachers! …..