Upper Corana is one of the schools that were built in the olden days when wood was used for people to step on but now it was rotting and would break anytime students or teachers were injured.
In two weeks, a question came out saying “May the students of Upper Corana school in Misty Mount village have lost their education” and they protested on August 31 this year saying they want their school to be rebuilt.
They burned all their classrooms and they are left without a place to study or write their exams this year.
The Department of Education in the Eastern Cape province has revealed that it has not been easy to accept the students who burnt down their school, Upper Corana Senior Secondary School, in other schools it has asked them to attend.
It was very difficult for the tenth-grade students to start their trail exams as the lower grade school was about to be burnt down by these students who were determined to strike.
Last week on Tuesday, the chancellor of the education department in the Eastern Cape, Dr. Soyisele Nuku, visited the upper Corana school to assess the situation and progress regarding the future of the school’s students who want to study there.
It has not been easy to find or accept students from other schools where they have been asked to stay until the end of the year.
Doctor Soyisile Nuku says;
they have been asked to study in these schools for a while to end this year, it is bad and intolerable what the students of Upper Corana have done to burn down the school is unacceptable, it is not appreciated no matter what they were angry about.
The education department has admitted that the case of the burning of the Upper Corana school has been opened at the police station, and has warned other students of other schools not to try to do this.
The principal of the school, Mr. Vuyisile Mdabula, says “there is still nothing concrete about the progress regarding the school, they don’t know what will happen to it”.
During the protest, there was a student who was shot by the police and injured, the principal said, “it is very bad for the student now that he is going to the farm to eat, especially when the weather changes, he will be in pain, he will go to the doctor to be diagnosed when he feels this deep pain”.
However, the student still has hope that he will return to school and finish his end-of-the-year exams, but the situation he is in contradicts his wishes according to the doctor.
