Some schools telling learners to go home due to lack of PPE

Some across the country are reportedly turning learners away as Grade 6s and 11s return to class on Monday.

Parents went on Twitter to complain over their children being told to go home due to the schools lacking personal protective equipment . According to one user, some schools are reportedly allowing 40 learners in a classroom despite only 20 learners being allowed to be in one class in order to maintain rules of social distancing.I have a big issue now. My grade 6 daughter went to school today accompanied by my sister. She is being told that the kids will be 40 in a class and we were originally told the kids will be 20 in a class.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has been trending on the platform since she announced on Sunday that only Grade 6s and 11s would return to the classroom while institutions that were ready for the return of Grade Rs were allowed to reopen as well.

Motshekga confirmed that 968 of the country’s 26,000 schools across the country were forced to close and re-open because of Covid-19 since classes resumed for Grades 7 and 12 on 8 June, while three learners, some of whom were not at school, died in the process.

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