Experts say minister’s ‘obsession’ to resume school is ‘fatal mistake’ as nine close again.
Pupils get down to business during the first day back at school at Wordsworth High School in Benoni, 8 June 2020. Picture: Neil McCartney
Pupils in Grades 6 and 11 and some in Grade R returned to school a month after pupils in Grades 7 and 12, following months away due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The curriculum can be readjusted into 2021. It will be a fatal mistake to be obsessed with saving the academic year. Safety first,” he said. “We should have suspended the year and used that time to make the necessary infrastructure preparations so that we can have a good start to next year.
“I have taken a decision not to take her back and arranged for remote learning,” he said. “All that is human is now being dehumanised. We are blasé about loss and trauma.” The Eastern Cape decided to reopen schools on 20 July, due to a spike in Covid-19 cases. Grade R pupils in the province are expected to return on 17 August.
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