Teachers are not coping with the psychological stresses of working during the pandemic while their colleagues are dying, said founder of the Western Cape Teachers’ Forum Lee Hoffmann, who is a teacher and works for a teachers’ union.
Cape Town – Nineteen school staff died of Covid-19 in the province but no schoolchildren, according to the Western Cape Education Department .
Of these, 153 were recent and considered active infections, Mauchline said. No pupils deaths had been reported. “Our educators are heartbroken, as I am sure many of our children are - past and present. Mr Klink was the grandfather that your child needed, he was the father that was missing from home, he was the mentor to our educators and he was the source of our spiritual guidance and motivation.”
He created the Teachers’ Forum Facebook group in 2015 as a place for education workers to network. During the pandemic, it has become a place to share information, fears and to support one another, with a particular focus on the mental wellness of teachers. The SA Democratic Teachers Union and the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA said this was a regrettable decision.
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