{"id":413099,"date":"2020-07-02T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=413099"},"modified":"2020-07-02T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:55:43","slug":"delay-in-grades-returning-to-school-next-week-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/413099\/delay-in-grades-returning-to-school-next-week-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay in grades returning to school next week &#8211; here&#8217;s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has announced the postponed return of a number of school grades citing the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The department said that the decision was taken after the Council of Ministers (CEM) received a number of briefings from education stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After careful consideration of all the reports CEM took a decision that only Grade 6, Grade 11 and Grade R will return to school on Monday (6 July).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision affects all provinces. The other grades will be phased (in) during the month of July in a differentiated approach within the stipulated time frames as per the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/gcis_document\/202006\/43488gen357.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gazette<\/a> <\/strong>of 29 June as published by the minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said that her department will adjust the reopening of phases based on a risk-adjusted strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are guided in this by an observation of the rising numbers of community transmissions throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognise that schools are based in communities and learners live in the same affected communities and therefore a careful balancing act must be maintained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DECISION from CEM: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wwBLAqtXK2\">pic.twitter.com\/wwBLAqtXK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dep. Basic Education (@DBE_SA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DBE_SA\/status\/1278676267735400449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The below table shows the return dates of the various grades based on the gazette published on 29 June.<\/p>\n<p>Further directives are expected to provide clarity on the grades which will no longer return on 6 July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/412955\/these-are-the-new-harder-lockdown-restrictions-gauteng-is-looking-at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">These are the new \u2018harder\u2019 lockdown restrictions Gauteng is looking at<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has announced the postponed return of a number of school grades citing the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":239537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-413099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413111,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413099\/revisions\/413111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}