Benoni Educational College (Benoni)

Benoni Educational College, where "college" is doing the heaviest lifting of any word in the English language. You are a private school. In Benoni. With 8 teachers. Eight. My uncle's braai had more responsible adults present and nobody there had a teaching qualification either. Forty-four learners per teacher. Forty-four. That is not a classroom, that is a taxi rank with a whiteboard. The teacher is not teaching, they are just trying to make eye contact with someone, anyone, before the bell goes. And you are paying private school fees for this experience. Private. School. Fees. For a 70.9% matric pass rate, which means almost three out of every ten kids who went through that taxi rank with a whiteboard did not make it. In Benoni. At a place called a college. And listen, the school wrote its own description and the most honest thing in it, the thing they led with, is "relatively high learner-to-educator ratio." They put that in there themselves. With a straight face. That is like a restaurant's menu saying "our kitchen is relatively on fire." At least they are honest, which is more than you can say for most private schools, so there is that. Overall verdict: Benoni Educational College is basically one determined teacher and a dream, which is either very inspiring or very concerning, but somehow they are still standing and in Benoni that counts for something.