EDITORIAL | Schools must go the distance before they reach full capacity
The drive to bring back all primary school pupils should not be done at all costs
03 August 2021 - 20:00
Estimates suggest that most primary schoolchildren lost between 70% to a full year of learning since March last year. It is the same as saying the average grade 3 child in June 2021 has the same learning outcomes as the average grade 2 child in June 2019. In May 2021 the total number of seven- to 17-year-olds who had not attended school once this year was between 650,342 and 753,371...
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