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Leerders het met plakkate rondgestaan, wat duidelik hul ongelukkigheid uitbeeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op van die plakkate staan dat klasse oorvol is met tot 55 leerders en sommige wat nog in die gange moet sit tydens onderrig, omdat daar nie genoeg plek is vir al die leerders nie. Die kinders pleit vir gehalteonderrig en s\u00ea hulle is moeg vir le\u00eb beloftes. Die betogers voer aan dat die skool nie net \u2019n tekort aan lessenaars het nie, maar ook aan onderwysers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julies het bevestig dat klaskamers uit hul nate bars en dat onderwysers weens oorvol klasse onder druk is. Hy s\u00ea onderwysers is veronderstel om klas te gee vir 35 kinders, maar dat dit nie by di\u00e9 skool die geval is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bronagh Hammond, \u2019n woordvoerder van die WKOD, het by navraag ges\u00ea: \u201cDie WKOD-distriksbeamptes het \u2019n vergadering met die skoolbeheerliggaam gere\u00ebl om vas te stel wat hul bekommernisse is en waarom daar gerugte oor oorvol klasse is, terwyl ons data toon die skool het 44 klaskamers (wat die infrastruktuur betref) vir 25 geregistreerde klasse (aantal klasgroepe) en 35 opvoeders (insluitend die skoolhoof) in die bepalings van die diensstaat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie leerder-tot-klaskamer-verhouding is 24:1. Ons moet dus vasstel wat die probleem is en of dit te doen het met die bestuur van die skoolrooster en die herrangskikking van die aanvulling van meubels. Alhoewel daar \u2019n toename in leerders vir graad agt was, dui die data wat ons op ons stelsel het op \u2019n ander scenario.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leerders wat nie skoolplasing kon kry nie, is na bewering aan die begin van die jaar aan die skool toevertrou, met die belofte dat nog meer onderwysers aangestel sal word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julies s\u00ea die skool kort minstens nog twee onderwysers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is nie die enigste probleme wat Weltevrede in die gesig staar nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Julies gaan die skool gebuk onder misdaad en word onderwysers deur bendes tydens skoolure geteiken omdat die skool nie behoorlik omhein is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c \u2019n Onderwyser wat aan die begin van die jaar by die skool aangestel is, het reeds bedank. Bendes het tot in die klaskamer gekom en haar skootrekenaar gesteel. Sy was so getraumatiseer dat sy net daar bedank het. Van die kinders moet buite die klas in die gange tydens lesse sit. 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