Diaz PrimêRe Skool (Mossel Bay)

Diaz Primêre Skool in Mossel Bay, where the learner to educator ratio is 30.5 to 1, which means your teacher basically had one eye on you and one eye on the other 29 kids trying to set something on fire. Thirty educators for 915 learners. That is not a school, that is a mosh pit with a chalkboard. Your teacher did not mark your homework, she crowd-surfed over the desks and hoped for the best. And listen, no-fee school is actually a vibe, government picks up the tab, respect to that. But when you have got 30 educators splitting 915 children between them, the government is not picking up the tab so much as they are picking up the tab, losing the slip, and then load shedding the whole situation. Your Grade 3 teacher was not a teacher, she was a traffic officer at the N2 off-ramp, just waving everyone through and praying. Mossel Bay though. The Diaz cross is right there, they named the school after the man who basically got lost at sea and stumbled onto the Garden Route by accident, which feels very on brand for a school where half the class probably could not find their classroom without a map. Bartolomeu would be proud. He also had no idea where he was going, and he turned out fine. Sort of. Overall verdict: Diaz Primêre is doing the Lord's work with half the staff and double the kids, genuinely respect the hustle, but that ratio hits harder than the Mossel Bay wind in July.