53% of adults want schools closed until Covid-19 situation improves - survey

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As the country intensifies its fight against Covid-19, a survey conducted by UJ has revealed that the majority of people are against the reopening of schools on January 25.

President Cyril Ramaphosa offered little clarity on what would happened during his televised address on Monday evening, hinting that an announcement was imminent.

Differences on whether schools should reopen differed by income, race and type of accommodation in the survey conducted using social media adverts to draw potential participants and through the popular #datafree Moya Messenger app, which has 2 million active users. “Attitudes to the reopening of schools also differed by race. Indian adults were the most strongly opposed to schools reopening, with 77% saying schools should not reopen until the situation improves. Coloured and black African adults were also opposed. Sixty-three percent of coloured adults and 52% of black African do not believe schools should reopen. In contrast, only 37% of white adults were opposed to the reopening of schools,” the university said.

Parents from poorer backgrounds were the most worried. Eighty-seven percent of adults with monthly incomes of less than R20,000 were “very concerned”, but only 52% of those earning more than R20,000 gave the same response.

 

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How many parents and which parents were interviewed? Surely a proper journalist would ask this as the number of people interviewed plays a crucial role in the answer received!

Good So!

I always say protect yr child from this useless gov keep yr child home otherwise u will 😭😭😭😭

Our government doesn't listen! Schools will open and we will lose even more educators through death! They just don't care about ordinary lives!

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Thought it was the 27th that schools were going to open I can understand the teachers not wanting to go back, full pay no work But why don't parents want the schools to reopen Mostly went very well in 2020

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