Some principals have been found to have deliberately oversubscribed their schools inorder to be paid bigger salaries.
In its report tabled following oversight visits in Capricorn and Sekhukhune districts in Limpopo, the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on basic education called for principals to be held accountable for overcrowding.
The report read: “There was general concern and condemnation of overcrowded classrooms, and members could not accept that some classes had up to 83 pupils. This defied the concept of quality teaching and learning.” “In Limpopo overcrowding even happens in Grade R. There was a school where a Grade R teacher was responsible for 72 children. That is bad,” she said.“It’s not that the kids don’t have other options.”
He added that principals enrolled too many children for fear of reprisals from the community and district officials if they did not.
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