Pupils wait to board transport to their respective schools
at the Bulawayo Large City Hall ahead of their opening today. (Picture below):
Thekwane High School pupils depart from the City Hall car park yesterday.
(Pictures Eliah Saushoma)
Parents and guardians yesterday made a plea to the educators
to resume their teaching duties as learners have already lost a lot of time.
Government has started recruiting 10 000 teachers as it
seeks to revise the teacher-pupil ratio from Grade One to Grade Seven, as well
as fill vacant posts.
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education requires at
least 40 000 more teachers to address the critical manpower deficit in the
education sector, with science subjects and early childhood development classes
being the worst affected in terms of staff complement.
It was a busy day for most pupils learning in boarding
schools as they left for their various learning institutions yesterday morning.
Parents and guardians also made the last-minute rush to buy
stationery used by their children in school and some book shops that normally
do not open on Sundays were open.
Schools were supposed to open on January 11 but a spike in Covid-19 cases as a result of the Omicron variant saw Government deferring the opening of schools. Herald
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