Cape Town – South African Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has expressed confidence in her department, saying that schools are ready to welcome pupils back on a full-time basis.
This follows the Cabinet’s decision to discontinue rotational learning last week.
According to News24, Motshekga told the media over the weekend that she had a meeting with the department’s stakeholders and that many concerns pertaining to the feasibility of accommodating all of the students under the current circumstances were raised.
However, she assured them that an intensive recovery plan to make up for the devastating loss of teaching time was in the works.
She also revealed that her department was in discussions with the National Treasury to resolve infrastructure issues that were raised by stakeholders.
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“The return to normal timetabling will assist the sector to intensify its implementation of the curriculum recovery plan. The learning losses incurred in the past two years are indisputably devastating.
“The first step towards addressing the crisis of lost learning is to prevent further disruptions to school time, and prevent other learning losses while ensuring the health and safety of our school communities. The second step is to introduce measures to catch up on the time, as well as the teaching and learning that was lost through the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular,” Times Live quoted Motshekga as saying.
Pupils returned to daily attendance on Monday.
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