Namibia: Learners Sacrifice Holiday for Good Results At the End of the Year

30 April 2014

For some learner holiday is just a word they hear about still attending extra classes and do things that keep them close to their school books.

A Grade 12 learner at the Uukule Senior Secondary School in the north, Johanna Teofilus, says it might be a school holiday but to her it is still books as she attends extra classes. "It is just holiday because I am home and not in the school hostel and that I have to choose which classes to attend," she says. Johanna and fellows are attending classes from Monday to Thursday with every learner having to choose classes to attend depending on the subjects they do not understand and it is compulsory for the Grade 10 and 12 learners.

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