MIXED REACTION: Parents attend a meeting held at the provincial Department of Education district offices in Sidwell yesterday for parents who want the northern areas schools to reopen. Picture: MIKE HOLMES
Some call for reopening in northern areas
PARENTS demanding that schools in the northern areas reopen after a month-long shutdown yesterday locked horns with parents who refuse to reopen schools until certain demands are met.
The two opposing groups met outside the provincial Department of Education’s district offices in Sidwell.
There were several heated encounters at a meeting called by ANC MPL Christian Martin for parents who wished to see schools reopen immediately.
Martin said there were parents who believed children should return to school while negotiations with the department continued.
But a small group of parents, led by Nationalist Coloured Party regional chairman Marlon Daniels, arrived at the offices and the atmosphere was tense as they gathered around Daniels and Martin.
While Martin is appealing for all 52 schools in the northern areas to reopen immediately, Daniels and another faction of parents support the continued shutdown until the department addresses the shortage of teachers and overcrowded classrooms.
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