Exploring Teacher’s Perceptions on Compliance With Covid-19 Safety Protocols in Secondary Schools in Soshanguve

Abstract

There is paucity of research in the country on resource provisioning to schools in the form of PPE’s. This article investigated the educator’s perceptions on the supply of PPE’s and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols in Soshanguve secondary schools as measures to mitigate against the pandemic. In South Africa, education authorities implemented the standard operating procedure (SOP) as a disaster management tool for the prevention, containment and management of the COVID-19 in schools. A qualitative approach was used and data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The snowball sampling method was used for the selection of participants (n=10) comprising teachers from different schools. The results suggest that there is a rampant disregard by schools for the COVID-19 health safety guidelines due to multiple factors ranging from insufficient resources and urgency of the work. We concluded that the Department of Basic Education did not supply schools with adequate resources to deal with COVID-19 challenges.