Over 200 000 pupils have dropped out of Gauteng schools, according to education MEC
The MEC also added that 135 169 pupils repeated grades in 2021; grade 10 had the highest number of repeaters with 29 795 pupils.Gauteng has over 200 000 grades one to 12 pupils who have apparently dropped out of school during the 2022 academic year.
According to Chiloane, out of 2 513 350 pupils who were enrolled by the department in 2021, only 2 252 291 returned to school during the 2022 academic year.He said the department was uncertain about whether pupils had moved to other provinces, or countries, or had left the basic education system altogether.
He added that as part of the department’s pro-poor policy initiatives, the department also coordinated a school nutrition programme to ensure that pupils from poor communities had access to food, and also provided scholar transport to qualifying pupils. Meanwhile, DA Gauteng Shadow Education MEC Khume Ramulifho said many schools in the province were in a terrible condition which had resulted in thousands of pupils being lost in the system.
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