A disrupted year of schooling in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth (PE) in 2015 has had a negative impact on the matrics from the area. The results released by the department of Basic Education revealed that areas where violent protests took place, schools also suffered.
In 2015, nearly all the schools were closed for two weeks as parents protested against the lack of teachers in some schools and infrastructure problems.
Richard Draai, of the Northern Areas School Forum, calls the situation in the northern area schools “dire and tragic”. He says, “We have been fighting to improve the situation of our school kids for five years. The Northern Areas School Forum was established in June 2014 and has had the political will to do something about the situation of our children. We are not surprised concerning the issues around the failure rate of the Eastern Cape.”
Draai calls the Eastern Cape matric failure rate “unacceptable” and says that the Eastern Cape Education Department are totally dysfunctional.
In 2015, nearly all the schools were closed for two weeks as parents protested against the lack of teachers in some schools and infrastructure problems.
Richard Draai, of the Northern Areas School Forum, calls the situation in the northern area schools “dire and tragic”. He says, “We have been fighting to improve the situation of our school kids for five years. The Northern Areas School Forum was established in June 2014 and has had the political will to do something about the situation of our children. We are not surprised concerning the issues around the failure rate of the Eastern Cape.”
Draai calls the Eastern Cape matric failure rate “unacceptable” and says that the Eastern Cape Education Department are totally dysfunctional.
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