Eketsang Secondary School (Germiston)

Eketsang Secondary School in Germiston, where the learner to educator ratio is 34.8 to 1. Thirty-five kids. One teacher. That teacher is not teaching, that teacher is surviving. That poor educator walks in on a Monday morning, sees 35 faces staring back at them, and just starts writing on the board and praying. The ancestors are working overtime at this school, because there is no other explanation for how one human being manages that classroom every single day. 1845 learners at this school. Nearly two thousand teenagers in one place. Germiston is already chaotic enough on its own, and someone decided to put almost two thousand hormonal matric students in one building. The tuck shop queue alone must look like a taxi rank on a Friday afternoon. You want a pie? Better have left your house early, because that line is not moving. And then the matric pass rate sitting at 68.8 percent. Jy weet hoe is dit. That means roughly three out of ten kids who went through this school did not make it through matric. With 35 learners per teacher, no fees, and Germiston outside the window, honestly the fact that 68.8 percent DID pass is actually kind of wild. Those kids fought for that certificate. Overall verdict: Eketsang is basically a teacher appreciation course disguised as a high school, but the ones who come out the other side are built different.