Laerskool Generaal Beyers (Pretoria)

Laerskool Generaal Beyers in Pretoria, hey. Named after a general, running like a general's army. Almost 2000 kids and 56 teachers. Broe, that is not a school, that is a small municipality. One teacher for every 34 kids. Thirty. Four. Kids. That teacher is not teaching, that teacher is surviving. Every morning that poor juffrou walks in, looks at her class, and has a moment of genuine crisis. The general himself would have retreated. Think about what 1938 learners in one place actually looks like. Sports day must be a full two-day military operation. The tuck shop queue alone is longer than the N1 at peak hour. Someone's kid went to the bathroom in Grade 3 and only found their class again in Grade 5. In Pretoria heat, with that many people on one plot, it is basically a taxi rank with a school bell. And the name, Generaal Beyers, sounds very serious and very important. Very "we have standards and a legacy and a proud tradition." Broe, your ratio is 34 to 1. The only thing that ratio is proud of is chaos. With 56 educators managing nearly 2000 primary school children in Gauteng heat, load shedding must hit this school like a punishment from above. No fans, no lights, 34 kids per teacher, and someone's still out here calling it a legacy institution. Overall verdict: Laerskool Generaal Beyers is basically a small town that accidentally became a school, but somewhere in that beautiful chaos, kids are clearly getting through, so the teachers deserve medals, not salaries.