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Despite the department of basic education’s announcement that teachers and learners were given orientation about the coronavirus, anecdotal evidence doesn’t bear this out writes bongemacupe EducationMatters

But when it comes to the learners, it is also the responsibility of their parents to have schooled them about the virus and how it spreads; part of this knowledge sharing should have included that just because someone is coughing, it does not mean they have Covid-19.

She said she had suggested that, when answering a question, learners remove their mask and put them back on when they have finished speaking. But the next day parents protested outside the school, saying that teachers are trying to kill their children by asking them to remove their masks. whether we can really say there has been effective teaching and learning since schools reopened last month.

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