Marais Viljoen High School (Alberton)

Marais Viljoen High School in Alberton, ladies and gentlemen. Alberton. Where the East Rand dreams big and the Spur on the main road stays fully booked on a Tuesday night. 1576 learners and 76 teachers, which means your educator was basically managing a small township meeting every time they took register. That 20.7 to 1 ratio means if you raised your hand with a question, statistically, twenty other kids also had the same problem and nobody was getting helped today. But let us talk about this website description because I need a moment. "Future orientated experts to discover and develop learners' potential." Broe. BROE. They wrote that with a straight face. Future orientated experts. At a public school in Alberton. Where the photocopier runs out of toner in February and stays broken until October. You are not discovering potential, you are surviving load shedding with 30 kids in a classroom that smells like tuck shop vetkoek and broken dreams. And the fees, Grade 12 costs R34,760 a year. For a public school! In Alberton! That is not "unlocking learner potential," that is unlocking your parents' credit card and hiding the statement before your dad gets home. Overall verdict: Marais Viljoen is a big, loud, proudly Afrikaans East Rand school that calls itself future-focused while probably still using the same OHP projector from 2003, but hey, the kids who come out of there are tough and we respect the hustle.