{"id":16832,"date":"2014-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/16832\/learners-found-gambling\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:45:55","slug":"learners-found-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/21\/learners-found-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Learners found gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The learners were sent home by educators because their parents failed to attend a meeting on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A parent phoned the Observer expressing her concerns on the ongoing matter at the school: \u201cThis school has a serious problem because its not the first time\u201d said the unhappy parent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur parents work until late and are not home at this time,\u201d said one of the learners found at the park.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Mahlako Mabuza, a school teacher, emphasized the importance of these meetings as crucial issues are being discussed. \u201cParents must send apologies if they can\u2019t make it or their children will suffer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Principal of the school was not available for comment at the time of print.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZUo7dF5pmj4' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 7 learners of Thusanang Primary school were found gambling in a park during school hours on Wednesday 20 August morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":16833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[882,2304,2302,21987,871,881,2303,2301],"class_list":["post-16832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-children","tag-department-of-eduaction","tag-gambling","tag-kids","tag-kloppers-driving-school","tag-schools","tag-teachers","tag-thusanang-primary-school"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["children","Department of Eduaction","gambling","kids","Kloppers driving school","schools","teachers","Thusanang Primary school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}