HoëR Tegniese Skool Potchefstroom (Potchefstroom)

Hoër Tegniese Skool Potchefstroom, sitting in Vyfhoek like it's waiting for something to happen. And look, we respect the technical school energy, genuinely, but 43 teachers for 985 learners means one teacher is basically running a small taxi rank every single period. That 22.9 to 1 ratio is not a classroom, that is a stadium event. Your teacher does not know your name, bru. Your teacher knows your face from a distance, like a mountain you have never actually climbed. And then the matric pass rate is 83.7%, which in Potchefstroom terms is apparently fine. That means roughly one in six kids did not make it through, and honestly with 23 kids per teacher trying to learn technical subjects, the surprise is not that some failed, the surprise is that anyone passed at all. Technical school means you are doing serious hands-on stuff, welding and wiring and whatnot, and there are just not enough teachers to go around. Someone is definitely learning to fix a geyser by watching a YouTube video on a cracked phone. No boarding facilities either, which means every single one of those 985 learners has to find their own way home through Potchefstroom every afternoon. In the North West. Where the wind does not get the credit it deserves for being absolutely unpleasant. Overall verdict: A solid technical school that produces kids who can actually build things, which is more than you can say for most schools, but someone needs to hire about fifteen more teachers before this place falls apart at the joints.