Proposed changes to fix South Africa’s ‘dysfunctional’ schools

The Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) says school governing bodies should have the power to hold underperforming schools accountable.
South African schools, particularly in rural areas, are entrenched in dysfunction with little to no resource allocation and are ill-supported to provide children with opportunities to excel academically, said the EELC.
Earlier this year, Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga announced the matric pass rate for 2021 to be 76.4%; however it has been speculated to be far lower as the official results do not consider the high dropout rate.
The EELC reported that in contemporary South Africa, approximately 80% of high schools are ‘dysfunctional‘. These schools predominantly serve black and coloured pupils, it said.
To address dysfunction across…