Teacher trade unions and ministry finally meet over covid pandemic in schools
Monday, February 22, 2021
Teacher trade unions and ministry finally meet over covid pandemic in schools
Bosetu recently published statistics showing 25 schools nationwide grappling with covid19 with three temporarily closing while many others continued to operate as normal despite worrying situations on the ground. It was the first ever covid19 report detailing how Botswana schools had been affected. It was also the first covid19 report issued by an entity other than the Covid19 Task Team, revealing for the first time information never before shared with the public by the covid19 Task Team.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...