So here we are, South Africa is up there as having one of the ten highest active cases of Covid-19 infections in the world currently, though you won’t hear about that because the focus is conveniently placed on total cases without considering global recoveries. Fortunately, we have an impressively low number of deaths comparatively but we keep being warned that the worst is yet to come.
And therefore now would be the perfect time to open schools right? Who knows? It has to happen sometime and waiting another few months could be just as devastating. Spare a thought for the officials who have to make the call, though. Aside from the anxiety provoked in every ECD teacher who would have to communicate to parents within the space of a week and the parents themselves, with nobody knowing what’s going on, it’s no surprise that people are bleak with the department of education… or is it the department of social development? Confusion reigns over the average parent and everybody is simply left to try figure things out for themselves with the government pumping mixed signals into the void of uncertainty.
Understand that before this, the government was indecisive and making a decision would be a bad political idea, Solidarity was an interest group that was perceived to have certain interests and pre-primary schools had no idea what was going on whether they could open or not.
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