No respite for open air Borolong pupils

The best that the ministry can offer is to tell the school authorities to rotate the use of classrooms. “The six classes taught outside are normally given the opportunity to be based in the classrooms on rotational basis,” said senior principal public relations officer at the ministry, Silas Sehularo.

However, the reality on the ground shows that this will not solve the problem. So far more than 117 pupils have been registered for Standard One at the school where a class carries 35 to 40 pupils. The school has more than 1,000 pupils while it is supposed to cater for 800. This has forced some classes to be taught under trees. The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi visited Borolong twice last year and expressed shock when she learnt that pupils are still learning under trees.