Class closure anguish

[caption id="attachment_37006" align="alignright" width="200"] CHAMONDRÉ HARRIS[/caption]

DISTRAUGHT young Somerset East pupil Chamondré Harris broke down yesterday as she tried to describe the effects of the debilitating teacher shortage that had left her Grade 3 class without a teacher since the beginning of the year.

The highly ambitious eight-year-old GW Olivier Primary School pupil, who was a Level 7 pupil at the top of her class last year, was gutted when her first term report showed a string of Level 2 and Level 3 marks.

"All we do at school is spend the whole day in the hall doing nothing," Chamondré said.

"My report was really bad because I didn't get any learning." Chamondré said they were sent home from school two weeks ago as their schoolmates wrote their mid- year exams. - Zandile Mbabela