The coronavirus pandemic is pushing us to respond to issues that were around before Covid-19, including at schools in poor areas
Right now South Africa needs to start reimagining our schools as places of hope and opportunity, not only for our children but for the residents of the area in which they are situated.
The department of basic education estimated that only about 20% of learners are reached through the various online platforms being used during lockdown. Apart from the lack of access to devices, connectivity and data in working class and rural areas, there is the issue of Since 2017, the CCS and the IKamvelihle Development Trust in Cala in the rural Eastern Cape has been piloting school improvement plans with four schools — two high schools and two primary schools.
Community agency engenders a sense of ownership of the schools by those people who live in the area. When this happens schools are generally not broken into and vandalised because the residents look after the school and regard it as a community asset.
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