PSA calls for an urgent plan to retain public school educators [SOUND]

# The Public Servants Association is urging the Department of Basic Education to urgently stop educators from leaving public schools. Recent reports show that there is an increasing exodus of educators from public schools owing to escalating crime, inadequate resources, and deteriorating working conditions. PSA’s Claude Naicker says when experienced educators leave the profession or migrate to better-resourced environments, learners suffer the consequences through overcrowded classrooms, reduced subject offerings, declining educational outcomes, and increased pressure on the remaining staff: