Evidence shows schools are not ready as the department pushes them to reopen in 10 days
With schools reopening in little more than a week, a report by the department of education and on-the-ground feedback suggest massive challenges in ensuring the safety of learners and teachers alike.
000 teachers will return this Monday. The approval for the reopening has been granted by the National Coronavirus Command Council and Cabinet. These problems highlight wider, longstanding issues at schools and an education system that has often failed to provide learners with basic water and sanitation services.
The Eastern Cape says preliminary disclosure forms have been developed. The Free State indicated that those teachers will be given forms to complete for approval for them to work from home. That province’s education department notes that: “It is uncertain how many teachers would qualify until schools reopen.”
It is not clear how learners with pre-existing illnesses will be accommodated by schools, because six provinces did not provide any details. This could indicate that those provinces do not have a plan, The unions received the report, which is meant to help with the final push of getting teachers to return to schools, just six days before they were due to do so.
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