Expulsion over extortion attempt to support family

A TABLEVIEW mother is desperately trying to find a school for her daughter to complete matric after she was expelled from Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard.

- MARSHA DEAN

The learner had asked her friends and their parents for money to help her struggling family.

The mother said her daughter never told them what she was doing and managed to collect around R5 000 over two months before the school intervened.

"She got expelled because she asked friends and their parents for money without our knowledge. She told them it was to help us because we were struggling so badly. There were times we went to bed without food," the mother said.

"She's the eldest, and I think she felt responsible. But she never told us. She said the money was from her boyfriend or grandmother. She used it for school stuff, to top up bus tickets for herself and her three siblings, and buy bread, eggs, and electricity."