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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Over 4 000 pupils are yet to be placed at schools, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the province\u2019s Education Minister Debbie Sch\u00e4fer said the number of pupils without schools had significantly dropped from 13 800 at the start of the year to 4 188 at the end of the first term.<\/p>\n

Sch\u00e4fer said: \u201cThis is not because of a lack of planning or effort on the part of the WCED. We have warned for years of the pressure that we are under, and have not received the necessary funding to address it. We are nonetheless doing everything we can to try and accommodate the increase this year as best we can. We have been able to appoint some additional teachers in areas where demand for places is growing quickly, which allowed us to place over 1 000 learners in the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among those who had been placed are some of the children who had been learning under trees in Forest Village. Sch\u00e4fer said the department had spent the past week making offers of placement for the pupils.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf of the learners have already been placed at schools. The department is still struggling to contact some of the parents of the remaining learners, who have provided incorrect contact numbers or whose phones go to voicemail. We urge the parents of those learners to contact their district to take up the placement offers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The illegal school, Empumelelweni School, had about 480 pupils.<\/p>\n

Pupils from the community-initiated school from Grades R up to matric, are being taught on an open field along Old Faure Road as there are no other schools in the area that can accommodate them \u2013 all the schools are full.<\/p>\n

They are being taught by volunteer teachings with no guidance from the WCED.<\/p>\n

Sch\u00e4fer said lesson packs had been created for pupils who only recently got placed, and they had lots of work to catch up on. She said schools have received additional funds for printing these.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking to include these learners in our autumn schools where necessary. These efforts should result in the placement of all the remaining learners this year, but they will not solve the problem of underfunding,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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