Schools could also introduce a platoon system in which pupils in certain grades attend classes in the morning and others in the afternoon.
These are the three options the department's director-general Mathanzima Mweli put on the table during a virtual meeting with school governing body associations and a principals' association on Sunday.The bodies that participated in the meeting included the Federation of Governing Bodies of SA Schools, Governing Body Foundation, National Association of School Governing Bodies and the SA Principals' Association.
During his presentation on the re-engineering of schooling, Mweli is said to have told the meeting schools should operate at 50% of normal capacity. The document he discussed was expected to be tabled at a special meeting of the Council of Education Ministers (CEM yesterday, which would include basic education minister Angie Motshekga and the nine provincial education MECs. The CEM will consider progress made towards the reopening of schools.
Motshekga is now expected to address the nation this afternoon about preparations for the reopening of schools, after her anticipated address yesterday was pushed out by a day.
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