Parents Elated Over Daughters’ Induction

Students will be able to achieve academic excellence if par­ents are good role models at home, says schoolteacher Suzie Kumar.

She believes this factor made her two daughters stand apart from other students in their school.

She was a proud mother yesterday when she watched her elder daugh­ter Neha Kumar badged as headgirl of Sabeto Sangam School.

Neha’s younger sister Reah Kumar was inducted a Year Six prefect.

They were among 48 students in­ducted as prefects yesterday. The school roll is 306.

“Today is one of the proudest mo­ments as parents to witness both our children inducted as school leaders, they have made both of us proud,” Ms Kumar said.

“We want to thank them for work­ing hard in school and also at home.

“Their obedience and persever­ance have resulted in today’s mile­stone achievement.”

She believes that children need to be taught moral values at home to help them in school or in the future.

Her husband, Nilesh Kumar, said parents had a very important role in being good role models to their children.

“Our children will display in school what they see and learn from home. This is very important that we as parents are good role models for them,” he said.

Neha, 13, thanked her parents for being the pillar behind all the suc­cess she had achieved in life.

The Chief Guest was the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces Officer-in-Charge, in Nadi, Lieutenant Semisi Vunibola. He reminded the prefects to carry out their role with humility and courage.

“You have been placed in the posi­tion of a leader. Whilst there are ex­pectations, it is generally accepted that most men are not born lead­ers,’’ Lieutenant Vunibola said.

“Leadership is an art that can be learnt. Therefore you must learn as much as you can and what to do in order to lead.”

Edited by George Kulamaiwasa

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