Teachers and parents in various communities have been protesting over the past few weeks, calling for schools to close as infections increase.
CAPE TOWN - The South African Democratic Teachers Union said it would wait patiently for an outcome on its calls for schools to close again.The union’s Johnavin Rustin said they were in talks with the Department of Basic Education on the options.
Pupils in grades R, six, seven, 11, and 12 are officially back at school, but the national Basic Education Department made it clear from the start that parents could make the call to keep their children at home and home school them.Rustin said their data suggested a low pupil attendance rate at schools in the Western Cape especially.Teachers, pupils and community members picketed outside the Heathfield High School in Cape Town on Monday in support of principal Wesley Neumann.
Mark Solomons, a former Heathfield High School pupil and member of the Retreat/Steenberg Civic Association, said opening schools ahead of the COVID-19 peak would put the lives of teachers and pupils at risk. He has backed action by the school’s principal.
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