Children who cannot read, cannot participate in democracy
By Voices360 Contributor | Published Jan 11, 2018
Millions of children next week enter the most important period of their school careers - the foundation phase (grades R to 3). It is in these grades that basic learning skills must be acquired. All later learning is built on this aptly named stage of schooling: “children who do not master basic concepts in the first few years of primary schooling are at a perpetual disadvantage”.