Given that the current educator to student ratio in the Republic has been officially benchmarked at 33.5 in primary schools and 32.2 in secondary schools, although in reality classes on average carry between 40 and 50 learners in each class, (a) what are the reasons that her department allows the situation to spiral out of control and (b) by what date does she envisage the situation will be remedied to comply with the standards of the South African Schools Act, Act 84 of 1996?