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Sexual harassment at schools worsens, learners and teachers are targeted

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It is not only children who are sexually harassed by teachers, because there are also hundreds of incidents of teaching staff harassed by pupils.

During the past financial year, the Department of Education dealt with 633 cases where teachers were harassed.

In a series of social media posts, warnings have been issued to all those guilty of the crime, but experts say the government’s actions speak of a reluctance to resolve the crisis.

According to a report to the parliamentary committee, 32 teachers were fired because of their involvement in sexual harassment, of which there are several incidents of rape.

Of all the incidents brought against teachers, only 101 cases were subject to disciplinary hearing, of which only 67 were found guilty.

Concerns have been expressed about the large increase in incidents while action against the culprits is only a small percentage.

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New school buildings may never come to black schools – too few trained black teachers to successfully teach learners – Black learners will be accommodated at other state institutions such as Afrikaans schools

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An educator told Die Vryburger that the possibility of enough schools and classrooms for South Africa’s learners will never come.

He points out that the black schools are overcrowded because there are not enough schools to accommodate them, but new schools will not address the big problem.

He says the biggest obstacle is the fact that there are not enough black teachers at all, and those who are in the classroom are not always well educated enough to successfully teach the learners so that they can be trained as teachers after school.

He said the black education crisis would not be resolved if the government did not focus on the training of many teachers.

The serious shortage can only be overcome with the establishment of education training colleges as South Africa has successfully conducted its education corps for many decades.

It makes no sense to set up new schools while there are no teachers who can staff the school, he s
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The ANC regime needs to take responsibility for the chaos in SA schools – too few schools for black learners has been built as well as a shortage of resources, now traditional Model C schools are forced to cater to teach English speaking students

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On Wednesday, schools reopened for the new school year, but thousands of scholars do not yet know where to go because there are too few schools and too few teachers.

In some schools, classrooms are so crowded that black pupils sit on buckets with an old beer desk crate for a desk.

It is reported that more than 6,500 schools have a shortage of furniture, and unskilled people are standing in front of numerous classrooms’ blackboard to try and teach pupils.

Experts point out that more than 25% of state schools are without enough desks and chairs for pupils.

A few new schools have been set up, but this compares poorly with the many schools burned down by pupils, and now black pupils are forced into traditional Model C schools, demanding that the school provide for English-language teaching for black learners . The school should also see to make teachers available to educate the black learners.

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