Should schools close for the October holidays or should the government scrap the 5-day break in an effort to make up time lost to Covid shutdowns?
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Should schools close for October holidays?
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Pineapple Smurf
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Yes, less daily traffic on the road
pinball wizard
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You're on a motorbike, you don't even have any traffic.
Open the schools to keep the estates and complexes nice and quiet.
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Commuting 50km each way in and out of Cape Town is still loads of dickheads on the roads to swerve for every single day
Kosmik
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5 days won't make a differance.
Herr der Verboten
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[X] Yes, and perhaps they do should more so than ever. Is there still an actual for usecase for schools as it is currently? Perhaps as a whole it needs a serious revision end to end.
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Yes, the schools must close in October.
1. Many people have already booked and paid for holidays in that time.
2. Teachers and learners need a proper break between terms. A long weekend will not cut it.
3. The whole reason to scrap the holiday is so that schools can catch up. Many schools don't need this extra time and are caught up. The curriculum was also trimmed, what do we extra time for?
4. If schools do need to catch up they can use the two weeks at the end of term 4 that is traditionally used for admin. There is no need to take away the holiday.
1. Many people have already booked and paid for holidays in that time.
2. Teachers and learners need a proper break between terms. A long weekend will not cut it.
3. The whole reason to scrap the holiday is so that schools can catch up. Many schools don't need this extra time and are caught up. The curriculum was also trimmed, what do we extra time for?
4. If schools do need to catch up they can use the two weeks at the end of term 4 that is traditionally used for admin. There is no need to take away the holiday.
RedViking
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Don't care. Kids are so messed around already. They can go back to school in their 30's
rh1
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It is not like most SA schools are institutions of quality. Will it even make a difference. Just look at most matriculants today, cannot be employed.
Dairyfarmer
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Teacher unions in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, .......
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No schools should be 9 to 5. There's so much wasted time.
marco79
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Teachers and Learners need a break from an overload of information.
lkswan747
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I think that the mental benefits of keeping schools open as well as the progress to education for the youth make this question a No Brainer!
Thestealth
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How dare you bring logic and common sense into this? Your type isn't welcome here
Jet-Fighter7700
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this,
with all the Covid interruptions and online classes and all of that,
how much did the kids actually learn at school?
or again the pass rate is lowered to 10% so practically if you can write your name, you pass matric.
ScottulusMaximus
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People spent the whole of the last year moaning to open schools and now want to close them.