Sowetan Newest.jpg Teachers protest over crowded classrooms Matthew Savides, Sowetan, Johannesburg, 13 May 2016 About 650 teachers picketed at the KwaZulu-Natal education department's head office in Pietermaritzburg on Friday, complaining about severe levels of overcrowding in the province's schools. In one case at a rural school outside Nkandla, 120 pupils share a single classroom. Many township schools have more than 70 pupils per class, said South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) deputy secretary Bheki Shandu. KZN.jpg The picket - part of protest action that will culminate with a march to the department's head office in Pretoria later this month - comes just a day after the KZN education department responded to a Democratic Alliance parliamentary question confirming that more than 380 schools in the province were overcrowded. Shandu said the protest was "very successful". "We were able to pull together a large crowd of our members, who collectively said 'no' to overcrowded schools. If you look at the sizes themselves, they cannot accommodate the number of students. This is on top of conditions that made individual learning extremely difficult," he said. He said the protest had been scheduled to take place after midday to ensure disruptions, if any, were minimal. From: http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2016/05/13/teachers-protest-over-crowded-c lassrooms -- -- 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.
