Motshekga: No more than 60% of school year can be saved
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says the department has accepted the fact that it won’t be possible to save the 2020 academic year in its entirety.
Motshekga visited different schools in Midrand on Monday morning as pupils in grades R, 6 and 11 returned to school.
"Not in its entirety,” she said. “We've accepted that we will not get 2020 as planned and that's why the trim of the curriculum was saying 'let's look at those foundational skills that we need for the next grade’.”
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The department has already moved to integrate 2021 into their schooling plans.
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"We count on a weekly basis the time we losing and integrate it into 2021 and we will even change the calendar in 2021,” Motshekga explained.
"So we've accepted that we will not be able to get all we have planned or bargained for 2020.”
Motshekga said term two has been completely lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic and schools are already in the process of also losing the third term.
"The second term is gone clean, we eating into the third term.
"Though we are shifting back, we've accepted that we are not going to get more than 60% of the year’s worth.”