Many schools are still not coronavirus ready for learners and teachers to return
This week was meant to be extra time for schools to get ready to reopen — a reprieve after a last-minute decision by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga who stopped the planned June 1 reopening for grade seven and matric. But teachers around the country detailed problems with their schools being Covid-19 compliant.
This week Kingsridge High School for Girls in King William’s Town and Selborne College in East London, both in the Eastern Cape, informed parents and learners that staff members had been in contact with people who had Covid-19. And that the schools would be closed pending the results of the staff members. If the teachers test positive the schools will be closed.
The consortium’s report was one of three that recommended Motshekga postpone the reopening of schools, from June 1 to June 8. In Limpopo a teacher said the school principal has been bullying them to come to school even though the school has not received protective equipment, does not have water and decent sanitation and has not been cleaned.
An Eastern Cape teacher said the principal at her school has made them sign leave forms for not reporting to school even though no protective equipment had been delivered and the school was not cleaned. “Yinto endingeke ndiyenze ke mna leyo [I will not do that],” she said.
This, however, doesn’t mean there aren’t other pressing concerns. A teacher from the Free State said there were a few things that still needed to be done at his school before Monday. Their biggest
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