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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Pretoria – The organisation Parents Against Opening of Schools believes rushing children back to school will place educators and learners at risk of contracting Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Vanessa le Roux said the group was formed after the lockdown was imposed during the first wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have over 111 000 parents from across the country; parents who agree for the second time, especially in this deadly second wave, that schools should not open now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know our schools, we know our challenges, and these officials make decisions based on Zoom meetings,\u201d Le Roux said.<\/p>\n

Public schools are due to reopen for teachers on January 25 and for learners on January 27.<\/p>\n

She said that countrywide \u201cwe are looking at over 2 000 teachers grappling\u2026 and some losing their lives to this virus. How can unions, the Basic Education Department and government not see this is a crisis?<\/p>\n

\u201cFor way too long we failed to address the inequalities, and the gap has just widened. As a government we have become way too comfortable to leave the poor masses behind. They should have learned from the first wave.<\/p>\n

\u201cWestern Cape speaks about a third and fourth wave, the government keeps preaching about the new normal and yet continues implementing old ways,\u201d Le Roux said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey keep on telling us about masks and sanitisers, those teachers that died. Are they now telling us that these teachers didn\u2019t follow protocols? If we trace back along the timeline of these recent deaths, these teachers could have been infected during the last week of school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of parents feel schools should remain closed and we should revisit and assess that by the end of February.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should consider crowded classrooms. In normal circumstances they have over 50 learners in one class and children share stationery,\u201d Le Roux said.<\/p>\n

Pretoria News<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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