A safe school environment has been linked to improved academic achievement, but in South Africa, school safety continues to be a rising challenge.

Although the country's National School Safety Framework, serves as an important instrument through which minimum standards for safety at school can be established, implemented and monitored many schools are plagued by violence, be it student to teacher violence, student on student violence or criminals targeting schools.

A recent incident involves a 17-year-old teenager who has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old who was found dead in a storeroom at a school in the Western Cape.

For more on this, is education activist Hendrick Makaneta, a South African based Education activist and Dr Ken Resnick, Educational Psychologist and Founder of the SmartChoiceParenting Programme.

A safe school environment has been linked to improved academic achievement, but in South Africa, school safety continues to be a rising challenge.
Although the country's National School Safety Framework, serves as an important instrument through which minimum standards for safety at school can be established, implemented and monitored many schools are plagued by violence, be it student to teacher violence, student on student violence or criminals targeting schools.
A recent incident involves a 17-year-old teenager who has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old who was found dead in a storeroom at a school in the Western Cape.
For more on this, is education activist Hendrick Makaneta, a South African based Education activist and Dr Ken Resnick, Educational Psychologist and Founder of the SmartChoiceParenting Programme.

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