Degrading: SA fails its pupils again and again

Lobby group Equal Education says civil society has “a collective duty” to focus SA’s attention on the dangerous environments pupils and teachers face every day.

When you dig deeper, you find that there is a built-in assessment design that enables tens of thousands of students merely to get over the line.
When you dig deeper, you find that there is a built-in assessment design that enables tens of thousands of students merely to get over the line. (Gallo Images/IStock)

Lobby group Equal Education says civil society has “a collective duty” to focus SA’s attention on the dangerous environments pupils and teachers face every day.

It was reacting to the damning findings of research conducted by Amnesty International into, among other things, the state of infrastructure and sanitation at SA schools.