Learners of Lawley Primary School No. 2 are being taught in overcrowded classrooms with 80 learners per classroom, which is not a conducive environment for learning and teaching.
This level of overcrowding at this school is unacceptable as there is a total of 1800 learners.
The mobile classrooms in which learners are being taught are damaged and pose a safety risk for both learners and teachers.
The school is also facing a serious safety challenge as it does not have a fence. The sewer system is also broken and overflows due to pressure as it is unable to accommodate the increasing number of learners at the school. During the rainy season, the sewer floods the school sporting grounds.
This school has been in existence since 2014 and it is high time that a brick-and-mortar school is built.
The DA demands that the Gauteng Department of Education must urgently intervene and provide the school with additional mobile classrooms to ensure that learning and teaching take place in a conducive environment. We will also put pressure on the Gauteng Department of Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, to prioritise this school and add it to the list of schools that are in the process of being built with a brick-and-mortar structure.
It is the responsibility of the department to ensure that schooling takes place in a conducive environment. We will continue to fight to ensure that additional mobile classrooms are provided at this school to reduce overcrowding in classrooms.