SADTU asks Education Department: Support demoralised teachers Jenni Evans, News24, Cape Town, 13 January 2016 The education department needed to support its teachers because their morale was at an all-time low, the SA Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) said on Wednesday. Crowded classes, constant policy changes without consultation, and massive workloads were causing stress and health issues, the union said as pupils around the country settled in for the new academic year. Spokesperson Nomusa Cembi said the teachers wanted quality development programmes, curriculum support and the necessary infrastructure. They also wanted to get their teaching materials and funding allocations on time. Cembi warned not all provinces would have the teachers they needed at the start of the first term due to the introduction of new norms and standards. Placing late enrolments She said teachers were, however, still looking forward to the first day of school and wished Grade 1s, in particular, a good start to their school journey. Education department spokesperson Troy Martens said final national intake figures would only be available once districts forwarded them to the national office. In the meantime, the department was monitoring the process of placing pupils who had enrolled late. In Gauteng, 16 000 pupils had not yet found a place, mainly due to migration. The department was, however, confident places would be found for them, but warned that pupils might have to go to a school able to accommodate them, rather than the school of their choice. Martens also said there should not be any issues with textbook deliveries this year. She said once all pupils were accommodated, the department would know how many more books were needed. From: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/support-demoralised-teachers-SADTU-as ks-education-dept-20160113 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
