{"id":123395,"date":"2020-05-14T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=123395"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:24:30","slug":"no-online-classes-for-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/05\/14\/no-online-classes-for-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"No online classes for learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mkhulu Combined School in Doornkop is not one of those schools.<\/p>\n<p>One of the school\u2019s governing body members, Elman Mtau, told the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0that pupils in Doornkop are left at a disadvantage because they cannot afford data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData is not the only problem, some of these children don\u2019t even have smartphones to access the internet,\u201d said Mr Mtau.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that pupils don\u2019t have internet access makes it impossible for them to receive any sort of communication from the school.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mtau also added that the only thing the learners can do at this stage is to watch lessons on the television, and those with no TV listen to educational shows on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, there is nothing we can do,\u201d said Mr Mtau.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education is yet to announce when schools will be reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country remains under lockdown and uncertainty mounts on when schools will be reopened, some schools have begun online lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":88392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[24773,10010,12898,24774,24775,10333],"class_list":["post-123395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-government-schools-cannot-continue-with-online-learning","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-schools-continue-with-online-learning","tag-schools-to-commence-with-online-learning","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["government schools cannot continue with online learning","local news","middelburg news","schools continue with online learning","schools to commence with online learning","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}