Department hopes for better term as schools reopen
As children across the province head back to their classrooms this morning, the KZN Education Department says it hopes the second term will run more smoothly than the first one.
Some pupils missed out on days of schooling due to service delivery demonstrations as well as protesting parents who had issues with appointed principals.
Head of Department Nkosinathi Sishi says they won't shy away from social problems that eventually affect schooling. He says the key to resolving these is dialogue and not protests.
"We are a very live system and we are going to pick those problems all the time because we are a mass-based system, we open our doors.
"Unlike in other countries, our education system guarantees the child of the poorest of the poor access to to education and that access comes with social problems from where that child is located," he said.
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