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Woman sues Jakarta private high school for failing her son
A woman named Yustina Supatmi recently filed a lawsuit against Gonzaga High School after her son failed to pass to the next grade, she has demanded the school pass her son to the next grade as well as asking for compensation.
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A woman named Yustina Supatmi recently filed a lawsuit against Gonzaga High School after her son failed to pass to the next grade, she has demanded the school pass her son to the next grade as well as asking for compensation. (Shutterstock/Billion Photos)
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woman has filed a lawsuit against Gonzaga High School with South Jakarta District court after her son failed to pass to the next grade.
Yustina Supatmi filed the lawsuit with the court on Oct. 1 against the school’s headmaster Paulus Andri Astanti, deputy headmaster for curriculum Himawan Santanu, deputy headmaster for student affairs Gerardus Hadian Panomokta and homeroom teacher Agus Dewa Irianto.
Yustina said that before she filed her case at the court she had asked the school to hold a meeting to discuss the matter but to no avail. She also tried to consult with the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) but got rejected because her son is over 17 years old, and therefore an adult.
“We have requested the school to hold a meeting to discuss my son’s grade, we’ve made a request to the head of the Catholic Education Council [MPK], the Jakarta Education Agency and KPAI, but the meetings never happened. We felt like our voices were not being not heard, so we had no option but to file the case in court,” she told The Jakarta Post on Friday by phone.
Yustina said her son failed to be promoted to the next grade because he flunked his history class.
“My son scored 68 in history class while the school’s minimum competency score is 75. However, his average history scores throughout the semester were fine, he only flopped in the end of semester exam,” she said, adding that her son’s average score in other classes was 80.
In the legal suit, she demanded the school pass her son to 12th grade and pay Rp 551 million (US$ 39.397) in compensation.
