Milner High School (Klerksdorp)

Milner High School in Klerksdorp, listen, we need to talk. You have got 974 learners and 43 teachers, which works out to one teacher for every 22.7 kids. That is not a school, that is a teacher trying to give a lesson while slowly backing towards the door. By the time that poor educator gets to the last row, the first row has already forgotten what subject they are in. Jy weet hoe is dit. And that 81.5% matric pass rate, okay look, it is not terrible, but it is also not something you print on a hoodie. Almost one in five kids did not make it through, and somewhere in Klerksdorp New Town, a guidance counsellor is sitting in a staffroom pretending that is fine while eating a sad sandwich. You are not quite clearing the bar, you are more like brushing the bar with your chin on the way down. Klerksdorp New Town also deserves its own moment here. New Town. They named it New Town and then just left it like that, like a braai that never got going. The whole province is North West and somehow this school ended up named after a British colonial prime minister like they were very proud of something. Bold choice. Still bold in 2024. Overall verdict: Milner High is the school that is definitely trying, bless its heart, but with 43 teachers holding the line for nearly a thousand teenagers in Klerksdorp, those educators deserve a bonus, a holiday, and possibly a therapist.