Budgeting Scenario

 

Eleven schools were targeted to receive donations from a well-known IT company in the province. Lehurutse Primary School was one of the lucky schools that received five computers from the company. Immediately after receiving the computers, the school fitted out a small computer lab and the equipment was installed. The staff members were very excited about the equipment. They all began to use it immediately.

To everyone's surprise, as the school approached the exam period, every educator decided to type his or her own exam paper on the computer. Three days before the deadline for the exam papers to be submitted, a disaster occurred.

The principal was busy in the office, when two educators rushed in, in a panic!
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"We cannot print out our exam papers. The printer is not working properly. Everything that we try to print out is very faint, and illegible. A flashing message appears on the screen. It says that there is no toner. When we told the administrator this, she says there is nothing left in the budget for purchasing more toner," the first educator shouted.


The second educator added, "There is also no spare typing paper at the school. What are we going to do?"

As the principal was busy with these two educators, a third educator walked into the office.

"I don't understand it. I need to send some information to my learners and I cannot access the Internet. The administrator says our Internet service has been suspended, because we haven't paid our account. The learners need this information before their exams. What am I supposed to do?".

 

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