As outgoing chairperson of three terms totalling nine years on the Kidd’s Beach Primary School governing body, I can add the same comments and frustration to the school rebuild issue raised in Ann Crotty’s piece (Meet the Eastern Cape schools the province desperately tries to forget, January 16). We are a 100-year-old school with a mix of brick and prefab classes that are more than 70 years old. Some of the prefab slabs were recovered from schools in Duncan Village that were no longer using them and upgraded to provide classroom space for an area that is growing exponentially. Some of the classes have asbestos walls with holes broken through into the classroom, some have broken floorboards where teachers have fallen through the floor, but the class still has to be used due to lack of facilities. Being on the coast, rust is a problem and many of the windows are rusted through. Ongoing development has seen the school double in size in just eight years. I have made numerous submissions...
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