Discovery Primary School (Roodepoort)

Discovery Primary in Roodepoort, hey. The name makes it sound like they are constantly finding new things, but bro, with 1171 kids and only 48 teachers, the only thing getting discovered is that your teacher has no idea who you are. You are literally one of 24 kids fighting for eye contact. That ratio is not a classroom, that is a taxi rank with a whiteboard. Forty-eight educators for over a thousand children in Roodepoort. Jy weet hoe is dit. The teacher calls the register and by the time she gets to your name, the first kid she called has already finished primary school and moved on to high school. Some of those kids in the back row have been "discovered" maybe twice in their entire six years there. The school is called Discovery but half the learners are still missing. To be fair, it is a public co-ed school doing its thing in Roodepoort, and it is keeping over a thousand kids off the streets every day, which in this economy is actually a miracle. The teachers showing up for those numbers deserve a Checkers gift card and a long weekend. Overall verdict: Discovery Primary is basically a small city that sometimes does maths, but the staff are absolute heroes for managing a crowd that size and still pretending everything is under control.