Teachers in Chatsworth and Phoenix are grappling with escalating classroom challenges that threaten the quality of education provided to pupils.
Full-time teachers are calling on the Department of Basic Education to address vacancies in public schools, citing mounting pressure from a high pupil-to-teacher ratio, currently pegged at around 34 pupils for every state-paid educator.
Teachers in Chatsworth and Phoenix said this growing disparity leaves many grappling with escalating classroom challenges that threaten the quality of education provided to pupils.
A teacher from Chatsworth, who declined to be named as she is not mandated to speak to the media, said that over the last 18 years of her career, classrooms have evolved from places of learning to unruly rooms of noise and disruption.
She attributed this to the high pupil-to-teacher ratio, which, according to the department’s School Realities report released earlier this year, was pegged at 34 to 1.
