More changes planned for South Africa’s schools
Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga says that her department will make further changes to the country’s schools as it continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
Motshekga told the SABC that key among these changes will be a review of the social distancing rules in classrooms.
The minister indicated that the current ‘rotation system’, where students alternate days at school, meant that too much learning time was being lost.
Instead, her department is looking at other measures, such as body screens, to get more children into classrooms safely.
“We are looking also at other measures. Other big schools for instance are using body screens not distancing because physical distancing is very expensive for us because it means we have to cut classes in half,” she said.
Motshekga said that schools had to cut out some parts of the curriculum because of the reduced contact time.
To make up for the teaching time lost to the coronavirus lockdown, the department has already trimmed the curriculum nationally. Parts of the 2020 curriculum will be carried over into 2021.
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