Who is teaching our children? DA KZN call urgent meeting with SADTU
10 September 2014
THE Democratic Alliance in KZN will call for an urgent meeting with SADTU officials after a party oversight visit conducted yesterday by Councillor Riona Gokool and I to Duffs Road Primary school in KwaMashu revealed that more than half the teachers had been called away to a teacher union meeting during school hours.
Time and time again SADTU has meetings during teaching time, causing massive disruption.
Yesterday's teacher union meeting, which took place in KwaMashu, was set to begin at 11:30am. It was allegedly called with next to no time for educators to find ways to continue their classes without disturbing learning time.
Certainly, the school I visited is not the only one that would have been heavily understaffed yesterday. During the hour and a half I spent there, most pupils played outside the entire time.