GOOD SG says yet WCED pushes narrative that Q5 schools are suffering cuts, conveniently ignoring massive scale of losses in poorer areas
Western Cape Education: Wealthy, predominantly white schools spared from teacher post cuts
22 January 2025
The DA-Led Western Cape government has once again shown its true colours and prioritised services in predominately white areas, leaving mainly black and coloured areas under-resourced.
Common sense would have assumed the Province’s 2,407 teacher post cuts would be evenly distributed across the 1,468 public schools. In a fair manner, ensuring under-resourced schools don’t suffer even more.
(Job cuts necessitated by the province siphoning off R8 Billion over the next 3 years of National Treasury funds it receives for education to be used on other discretionary projects not related to education.)
A fairly simplistic assessment would suggest 1 or 2 teacher posts needed to be lost at each school.
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