Pacaltsdorp SekondêR (George)

Pacaltsdorp Sekondêr in George, ladies and gentlemen. Right there in the Garden Route, where the trees are beautiful and the teacher-to-learner ratio is absolutely not. Forty-five teachers for 1396 kids, that is a 31 to 1 ratio. Bra, that is not a classroom, that is a taxi rank. The teacher is the driver, the kids are packed in shoulder to shoulder, and someone is always hanging out the door asking if this goes to town. Now listen, it is a no-fee school so we are not going to clown them for the money, respect to that. But 1396 learners walking through those gates every morning? During load shedding? George already goes dark like someone pulled a blanket over the whole town, now imagine trying to find your classroom in the dark with 1395 other people who also have no idea where they are going. The mountain at least has a cloud as a landmark. What does Pacaltsdorp have? Vibes. And an 82.7% matric pass rate, which honestly for a school running basically on a prayer and forty-five brave souls, is actually decent. Not decent enough to brag about at a braai in Constantia, but more than enough to hold your head up in George. Those teachers deserve a bonus, a holiday, and probably therapy. Overall verdict: Pacaltsdorp Sekondêr is the school equivalent of a government bakkie, overloaded, underfunded, and somehow still getting to the destination.