Erasmia Primary School (Centurion)

Erasmia Primary School in Centurion, where 31 teachers are somehow supposed to manage 811 kids. That is not a school, that is a taxi rank with a flagpole. One teacher to every 26 kids, which means by the time your teacher gets to you for help with that maths problem, you have already failed, repeated, and left the country. Centurion is already that place where Joburg and Pretoria had a argument and could not decide who must claim it, and Erasmia is sitting right there in the middle going "we also exist, please." The school has over 800 learners packed in there, and you know those corridors are chaos. Load shedding hits and suddenly 811 children are running in the dark while 31 teachers are doing a headcount that is never going to add up. The fact that this is a co-ed public school in Erasmia means everyone in that school is related to someone else in that school, and there is always that one teacher who knows your whole family tree and will absolutely tell your mother what you did at break. Twenty-six kids per teacher means group work is not a teaching method, it is a survival strategy. The teacher puts you in groups and disappears until the bell rings. Overall verdict: Erasmia Primary is a public school doing public school things with public school resources, which is to say a lot of heart, not enough hands, and somehow the kids turn out fine anyway.