Furore over Shona speaking teacher

Parents whose children attend Coghlan Primary School in Bulawayo recently expressed their displeasure at the deployment of a teacher who is not conversant in Ndebele and defined certain words in Shona which children did not understand.
Grade five pupils at the school, once graded as an "A" school, are reported to have complained to their parents of their failure to understand certain things in class because the teacher was explaining in Shona.
Sources at the school said parents approached the school to register their displeasure saying being one of the oldest and premier schools in the country, Coghlan Primary school had to lead by example considering it was an early child development centre of choice.
"They (parents) complained about deployment of teachers saying that education officials should look at the history of the school and its catchment area and deploy with that in mind," said the sources.
Despite being a government institution, Coghlan primary school is highly regarded by most parents in this town of close to one million people.
"There have been corrective measures though," said the sources adding the teacher who was fully qualified was still at the school and despite being non-conversant in Ndebele was "very competent".
The headmistress at the school, Jane Nomathemba Ndlovu, would neither confirm nor deny the incident refering all questions to the regional education director Dan Moyo.
"We do so many things in education (sic) such that I cannot remember that incident but we must have corrected it," she said.