July has seen a much-awaited response to the question of reopening or closing the schools. With schools closed again for 4 weeks and the academic year extended into 2021, many issues and practical factors remain unaddressed. This article explores how home education can help close the increasing divide of equality in this situation and beyond the pandemic. The ripple effects of a broken system The pandemic and the decisions made...

The health crisis of 2020 caused fundamental paradigm shifts in education, creating new opportunities to realize the right to education of all South Africans. However, planned regulatory reforms are still designed to enforce the old and failed paradigms. The old paradigm According to the old paradigm education can only be provided through schools. That is why the SA Schools Act of 1996 attempts to realise the right to education through compulsory...