Newsletter| A report found that pupils living in impoverished circumstances – where the nutritional, language and cognitive foundations are lacking – may be challenging to teach, but teachers would perhaps cope better if discipline wasn’t such a problem
This was a Grade 5 pupil’s angry response to her teacher at a primary school in Mbekweni, Western Cape, when asked why she didn’t respond to anything said in class.
The report found that pupils living in impoverished circumstances – where the nutritional, language and cognitive foundations are lacking – may be challenging to teach, but teachers would perhaps cope better if discipline wasn’t such a problem. “So many of the children in our schools are like that. They have so many barriers to learning – and there is this anger,” she said.“For many of our children, food is scarce at home, which affects their learning,” said another teacher.
The report found that teachers believe parents must shoulder some responsibility for the poor education outcomes across the country’s government schools. About teacher quality, a Western Cape teacher with 25 years of experience said he was not prepared for the extent to which the curriculum had changed, adding that teachers’ workload had “almost quadrupled” in the past two years.
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