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Acclamation, a worrying trend that is exposing parents to exploitation

Parents clapping to thank colleagues fighting against coronavirus (covid19). [iStockImages]

The Education ministry and the Teachers Service Commission must move with speed and address the runaway breach of government guidelines, largely attributed to abuse of acclamation, as a way of endorsing issues.

Head teachers have thrown reason to the wind and are in business, subjecting parents to unnecessary financial demands purporting it is the parents who have nodded in agreement to the calls to fleece them.

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