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Faranaaz Veriava
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It’s best to teach pupils by the book
Textbooks are essential when there’s no culture of reading and teachers lack content knowledge.
Private schools do not stand apart
Make no mistake: the autonomy of such institutions does not trump the Constitution.
Public participation in education under threat
Motshekga’s reported plans to make it easier to close schools could jeopardise pupils’ rights.
Learning to live in a material world
Expecting every pupil to receive a textbook isn’t prima-donna behaviour: universal access is vital.
Every class should have a teacher
A political commitment is needed to resolve the teacher shortage in many schools.
Refugee children win right to learn
But debilitating education hurdles remain for many foreign children in legal limbo.
A textbook case for stronger action
The recent Limpopo textbook judgment could have been more helpful on the question of relief for the violation of rights.
The state must do textbooks by the book
Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?
Our courts are schooling the state
With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.
Schools left in an intolerable infrastructure limbo
Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.
Pupils come before school politics
Concourt ‘regrets’ the lack of national norms that determine when a school is full .
Bad teachers still reach for the rod
Tougher sanctions might be needed to enforce the laws against corporal punishment, writes Faranaaz Veriava.
Progress betrayed by loopholes and double-digit deadlines
New infrastructure norms allow far too long to eliminate vast gaps between schools.
Don’t rely on courts: fix the policy
Schools are using the ambiguity of current directives to cast out their pregnant pupils.
Antagonism demeans state’s case
Moves to discredit Equal Education tend to mobilise civil society rather than weaken it, writes Faranaaz Veriava.