Violence in schools and depression among teachers are some of the reasons for the high level of absenteeism, a union official says.
Although teachers’ unions don’t condone the shocking figures of absenteeism among their members, there are a number of contributing factors that lead to their absence and these need to be addressed in order to ensure 10% of classrooms aren’t left teacherless daily.
“We must do more to support our teachers. There’s a need to drill deeper into the statistics to understand this leave of absence phenomenon. However, we must congratulate the provinces of Limpopo [6%] and Free State [7%] for registering the lowest rate of teacher absence during the period under review.
“It is not a reliable indication across all provinces and so we don’t really know. We do know that these cases are often under-reported and I am not convinced that it is better or worse, but it is not much different from the 2011 survey. We need to track this information more closely,” he said. “There is violence in schools that [teachers] need to deal with and they are helpless because they lack support from government. There is also a high level of sickness among teachers who experience depression,” Maluleke said.
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