“How do people rise out of poverty into middle class? Through education.”
In many places in South Africa, children at age seven are not school-ready. They are not numerate, and they are illiterate to the point where they don’t know the alphabet. You can put colors up on a wall in the school that they’ve seen every single day of their lives, and they can’t name them. Without the essential building blocks at ECD level, these children will find it difficult to cope with the formal schooling system.
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