So Leon Slutzkin finds the closing of schools laughable (June 7). Really?
Has he seen pictures of the destruction to schools in just the Athlone district alone?
No doubt his children go to a solid brick school and not these prefabricated schools.
I am so sick of these self-righteous people who think they know all the answers. They speak from inside their warm, safe homes.
There are those who think the people in informal settlements should have built their shacks on higher ground.
Really? They had a choice?
Before you put your pen to paper again, before you open your mouth and condemn the Western Cape Education Department (who for once did the correct thing), take a drive around the Cape Flats and witness the destruction.
Forget about your oak trees that were uprooted, your alarms and electric fences that don’t work – think about those without homes, schools, food and warmth.
Alongside is a picture of Sunnyside Primary in Thornton Road, Crawford. Imagine if there had been anyone in that building during the damage…