Access to quality education not only opens the door to opportunities for the rest of students’ lives, but is often a way out for learners whose immediate environment is hostile or mired in crime, domestic violence and poverty.
When Daniel Simons, a grade four pupil at Searidge Primary School in Mitchells Plain in the Western Cape, was bullied in grade one, he says he immersed himself in schoolwork.
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