Archive for date: April 15th, 2021

With the national energy around the matric results starting to settle, it is a good time to stand back and reflect. For us as educators and civil citizens, 2020 was a year like no other that any of us had ever experienced. This time last year we started learning about the novel coronavirus, and its disease, Covid-19. We learnt about living in uncertainty and we learnt about new social contracts, like not hugging. We also saw a world morph into working from home without a hiccup - the successes and pitfalls of which have been hotly debated for decades. We saw job losses, food insecurity and we saw hardship and suffering. At our school, about 10% of our staff reported contracting Covid-19, and virtually everyone experienced trauma in their immediate or augmented circles.
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