Give us our money!

********* and unprofessional conduct from the director / school management team. When we had to move our learner to another school in 2024 to safeguard her education (high teacher turnover a problem) Midland Primary and High School (MPHS, aka Midland International School) refused to return our fully refundable R4000 deposit. They ignored numerous mails from us for months but eventually agreed in writing to give us our money back, but shortly thereafter changed their minds. They said in writing that they would only give us our money back if we took down our review of the school. Can you believe it - trying to make giving OUR money back conditional upon us withdrawing an honest review that they didn't like - instead of addressing the factual problem areas that resulted in the review!

It is concerning that what is ostensibly a professional, trustworthy and respectable learning institution would choose to seriously damage its own reputation for the sake of with holding R4000 that legally belongs to a parent. The school has no legal or legitimate reason to continue refusing to pay back our fully refundable deposit.

The director Mr Vijay Addula and his school management team risk significant reputational damage by persisting with their ill-considered course of action in this matter. We hope that the schools governing body, the SA department of education, the CAT Group and/or the Umalusi Council steps in soon to address this serious ********* behaviour.

We entrust our young impressionable learners to a school in order to gain knowledge and have their integrity positively reinforced by the ethical words and actions of a school. No parent can afford to instead have a school undermining such integrity by behaving in an ********* manner. This is an absolute no no for a primary and high school.