OK, so I decided to write again today after reading the following post on IOL.
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5185785
It’s shocking to say the least, that we have people that are supposed to be ready for University, only a quarter are fully literate??? WHAT???? I find that absolutely unacceptable.
How do these kids get to the grade they are in if they cannot pass maths and literacy. LITERACY FFS!!! COME ON! I cannot be the only person who finds that absolutely ludicrous!!!? How do the teachers of these kids sleep at night knowing that they have pushed a child through to a higher grade, simply to fill out numbers. it’s disgusting, and completely unacceptable. and I DON’T CARE ABOUT POLICY!!! FIGHT THE POLICY FOR GOD’S SAKE!
if there is a policy to pass children who are not capable of the current standard because of sheer numbers, then it should be fought like any other vile, cancerous policy that threatens the very fabric of our South African society. am I over dramatising this? NO! I don’t feel so, the education system will be the vehicle for bringing about the flourishing of our economy in the future, the catalyst for the permanent change in the country. and right now, it’s failing us all. It will have to be up to the select few who have applied themselves, and those that can cope to push this country forward. Once again, a minority pushing the majority forward. wow, Deja vu anyone?
How do we change this? who do we take to task about the pathetic future that our education system is creating for us? do we have any right? do I have any right as a white South African male to do anything here? or will I get told to keep my apartheid educated opinion to myself? I fear it’s the latter.
it’s the job of the educator to educate, not fool everyone into believing they are educated!!! that poor child will end up with a serious problem when they enter the big wide world and realise they cannot cope in the business world. not at all. they are being set up to fail in the future. and what will the product be? more crime? more corruption and lies. just to eke out a life for themselves. what a miserable future.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that not all of the poor people in this country who have been forced into poverty through a lack of education advocate, or commit crime, but it’s the minority that do, and it’s they that will destroy this beautiful country.
We are creating a rotten core of youth in the country, the same youth who are supposed to lead this country in the future. We are not creating a future, we are creating disaster. the future of this country is doomed if the people in the education system do not wake up and realise that they are indirectly exacting the same bantu education that was forced on the black and coloured youth of our country by the apartheid regime! They are failing them, they are failing the parents, they are failing the tax payers.
How have we moved forward as a country? We haven’t. We are standing still, then taking 2 steps back. God help us all.
on the ANC website, is an English translation of our national anthem. the original written song of Nkosi, sikelel’ iAfrika with verses added by Samuel Mqhayi in 1927. it’s a beautiful, heartfelt song, and worthy of our national anthem, although we don’t sing these verses, here are 2 excerpts from it.
Bless the public men,
Bless also the youth
That they may carry the land with patience
and that Thou mayst bless them
Bless our efforts
of union and self-uplift,
Of education and mutual understanding
And bless them.
I think we should perhaps add these verses to the anthem, so we can sing them, and every time we do, our educators need to really understand the words, and START DAMN WELL APPLYING THEM! God will not take this country forward alone!
Brian
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5185785
It’s shocking to say the least, that we have people that are supposed to be ready for University, only a quarter are fully literate??? WHAT???? I find that absolutely unacceptable.
How do these kids get to the grade they are in if they cannot pass maths and literacy. LITERACY FFS!!! COME ON! I cannot be the only person who finds that absolutely ludicrous!!!? How do the teachers of these kids sleep at night knowing that they have pushed a child through to a higher grade, simply to fill out numbers. it’s disgusting, and completely unacceptable. and I DON’T CARE ABOUT POLICY!!! FIGHT THE POLICY FOR GOD’S SAKE!
if there is a policy to pass children who are not capable of the current standard because of sheer numbers, then it should be fought like any other vile, cancerous policy that threatens the very fabric of our South African society. am I over dramatising this? NO! I don’t feel so, the education system will be the vehicle for bringing about the flourishing of our economy in the future, the catalyst for the permanent change in the country. and right now, it’s failing us all. It will have to be up to the select few who have applied themselves, and those that can cope to push this country forward. Once again, a minority pushing the majority forward. wow, Deja vu anyone?
How do we change this? who do we take to task about the pathetic future that our education system is creating for us? do we have any right? do I have any right as a white South African male to do anything here? or will I get told to keep my apartheid educated opinion to myself? I fear it’s the latter.
it’s the job of the educator to educate, not fool everyone into believing they are educated!!! that poor child will end up with a serious problem when they enter the big wide world and realise they cannot cope in the business world. not at all. they are being set up to fail in the future. and what will the product be? more crime? more corruption and lies. just to eke out a life for themselves. what a miserable future.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that not all of the poor people in this country who have been forced into poverty through a lack of education advocate, or commit crime, but it’s the minority that do, and it’s they that will destroy this beautiful country.
We are creating a rotten core of youth in the country, the same youth who are supposed to lead this country in the future. We are not creating a future, we are creating disaster. the future of this country is doomed if the people in the education system do not wake up and realise that they are indirectly exacting the same bantu education that was forced on the black and coloured youth of our country by the apartheid regime! They are failing them, they are failing the parents, they are failing the tax payers.
How have we moved forward as a country? We haven’t. We are standing still, then taking 2 steps back. God help us all.
on the ANC website, is an English translation of our national anthem. the original written song of Nkosi, sikelel’ iAfrika with verses added by Samuel Mqhayi in 1927. it’s a beautiful, heartfelt song, and worthy of our national anthem, although we don’t sing these verses, here are 2 excerpts from it.
Bless the public men,
Bless also the youth
That they may carry the land with patience
and that Thou mayst bless them
Bless our efforts
of union and self-uplift,
Of education and mutual understanding
And bless them.
I think we should perhaps add these verses to the anthem, so we can sing them, and every time we do, our educators need to really understand the words, and START DAMN WELL APPLYING THEM! God will not take this country forward alone!
Brian
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