Equal Education Law Centre inundated with requests from desperate parents of unplaced learners.
On Friday, Judge Patrick Gamble delivered a, giving the department five days to place all the learners named in the case. Judge Gamble ordered that the learners be offered academic and psychosocial support and a catch-up plan.
He told the department to circulate a notice on local radio stations and newspapers within seven working days, inviting parents and caregivers of other learners in the Metro East Education District, who had not been placed in school, to approach the department for assistance by 29 June 2022. In a statement, EELC welcomed the high court ruling. The organisation said it planned to return to court in November to ask the court to direct the WCED to fulfil its constitutional obligation to manage and plan for the admission and registration of all learners at ordinary public schools for 2023.