Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has urged parents who are uncomfortable with sending their children back to school to explore other ways for them to finish the academic year.
“In Gauteng, we are not only opening class contact, we are making the system available to every child, every parent. If there are parents that want to home school their children, we are making that provision for them,” said Lesufi.
Lesufi said pupils who were ill and those with special needs would be accommodated as the department looked at reopening schools. Applications for parents to home school their children would remain open until September. Teachers across the country were expected to return to school on Monday. Some returned and others stayed away on the instruction of their unions. Lesufi said this was not cause for concern.
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