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At the start of 2020, learners all over South Africa prepared excitedly for school tours, plays, matric dances and the like. And then suddenly – lockdown. From Umhlanga to Uitenhage to Upington, there isn’t any school or learner in South Africa that wasn’t radically impacted by the COVID-19 Lockdown. This meant schooling from home. Here are 5 quotes from young South Africans reminding us of what it was like to learn under lockdown*:
Caleb Williams, GP (15)
Buhlebenkosi Mthimunye, FS (16)
Lamarr Banjo, MP (15)
daily on our class WhatsApp group. At times when I couldn’t concentrate on the work, her jokes about superheroes jumping on the Cartesian plane got me into the study mood again.”
Dhipika Sharma Maharaj, KZN (15)
decontamination tunnel and, worst of all, no sitting next to our friends. Things will be
different again but I will adapt as before. The question everyone is asking these days
is: “Is the world ever going to be the same again?”. What they should be asking
though is: are we ready to change?”.
Abigail Benfield, GP (13)
*As taken from Jansen, J. and O’Ryan, E. (2020). Learning under Lockdown: Voices of South Africa’s Children. Cape Town: CNA Publishers.
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