Ethics

2025-11-18. Circa 2024-08-06, bad planning by HS Tygerberg caused our son to miss a private after-hours prepaid music lesson several km away so we contacted Admin staff (phone & email) explaining WHY we would justifiably deduct pro-rata R180 from the next month's school fees. HS Tygerberg knew we had no history of failing to pay approx. R267,870 due for 2 students. We are NOT typical defaulters. Lo and behold their attorneys notified us via email and SMS threatening court action plus BLACKLISTING with ITC. NB: The BLACKLISTING threat was NOT mentioned as conditional upon winning their court case - presumably to consume tax-payer Magistrate Court resources when the Small Claims Court would cost far less. Consider the ethical principles pertaining to the principal R180.