The Covid-19 pandemic and the recent unrest has spiked the number of teachers and pupils suffering from post-traumatic stress and the concern is that they are not getting any help.
Across Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal pupils still live in fear a month after the unrest and looting gripped the two provinces. It is a fear that has left some unable to sleep or focus on their studies.
Basil Manuel, chairman of Naptosa said the organisation was deeply concerned by the lack of effort by the Department of Education.“Naptosa suggested that they need to be work-shopping the teachers in these schools a little more to deal with the trauma of children, but the department is failing miserably in its task to assist schools where teachers, children, and principals have gone through various levels of trauma,” he said.
“They come to school worried about what is happening at home, they come to school worried about their safety.”“There are too few people able to go out there and provide the psychological support that is needed.” Govender, who is the former chief education specialist of special needs education said that pupils, even at the best of times, are under immense pressure in the face of curriculum demands.
Researcher Stacey Jacobs explained that Equal Education conducted a survey of 44 parents in June this year, before the unrest, to establish the emotional and physical impact that pupils experience when they do not have access to meals provided by the The National School Nutrition Programme during the pandemic.
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