Hillcrest Primary School staff and pupils in Helenvale are at their wit’s end having to teach with a terrible stench from sewage flowing alongside the school from a blocked drain for the past month.
With an average 50 pupils crammed into each classroom at Hillcrest Primary School, in Gqeberha, is it any wonder that 8 out of 10 Grade 4 pupils in SA cannot read for meaning?
After about 50 children piling into each classroom since the start of the year, parents at Hillcrest Primary School opted to shut it down on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to address the crippling teacher shortage at the Helenvale school.