By Agencies
BLACK teachers at the elite Peter House Boys School have appealed for government’s intervention on the back of racism allegations rocking the institution.
Recently, black teachers at the school alleged the conditions they are experiencing is dire due to the superiority with which their white counterparts are treated.
One of the teachers alleged that for instance, an accounting department official (name withheld) is allowed to sell her dairy farm produce at the school like Yoghurt, Feta, Cheese, Fresh cream is allowed to use the reprography room to sell her stock and the school’s worker in charge of printing is used as her salesperson in her personal venture but black teachers are not allowed to sell anything.
Another white teacher (name withheld) sells his chicken, honey and does his business at the school, which is something black teachers are not allowed to do.
“Some school tours are handled by individual teachers, and not centrally by the school which risks potential kickbacks. This is a luxury afforded to white senior members of staff. Several black teachers are under scrutiny by one head of studies that is suspected to be tasked to remove black people to make way for foreign white teachers. Teachers are coming from the UK, Australia,” one staff member alleged.
Contacted for comment, the Peter House Boys School Rector, Jon Trafford neither confirmed nor dismissed the allegations at hand saying the school is not in the habit of disclosing any information which might compromise the privacy of staff.
“Consequently, we will not respond to the allegations raised by your questions. It would appear that your source of information has selectively distorted fact, and the allegations do not reflect reality on the ground. The alleged asymmetry between the treatments between black and white staff members is untrue.
“Further to your previous enquiry, Peterhouse has, over the years, been a strong advocate of diversity and has maintained abhorrence to racism. While recognizing your right to investigative journalism, objectivity in this case seems a little short of reality,” he said.
