Parents turn to private schools

Published on 22-07-2012 10:53 AM

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South African teachers on average spend less than 50 percent of their teaching time in class each week, the Sunday Times reported.

This figure was contained in a survey conducted by the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).

Teachers often did not understand their subjects nor knew how to teach them. Many in state schools bunked classes.

As a result, many parents turned to private schools for their children's education. The number of pupils in private schools had increased from 256,283 in 2000 to more than 450,740 to date.

In state schools, the pupil: teacher ratio was 30:1, but in the private sector, there was a ratio of 16:1.

Ten percent of 24,451 state schools lacked water facilities.

In total, 11,450 schools had pit latrines and 155 relied on the bucket system.

However, 913 schools did not have toilet facilities, the newspaper reported.

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rpm - 22-07-2012, 10:54 AM
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South African teachers on average spend less than 50 percent of their teaching time in class each week, the Sunday Times reported.

This figure was contained in a survey conducted by the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).

Teachers often did not understand their subjects nor knew how to teach them. Many in state schools bunked classes.

Mila - 22-07-2012, 11:33 AM
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Where is our spin doctors?

This is sickening. Viva cadres viva. You created a dumber mass of people than the previous regime even could dream of doing with Bantu education! Viva your selfless struggle succeeded!

Idiots. In the land of the stupid one braincell is king.

Hemi300c - 22-07-2012, 12:01 PM
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Viva cANCer Viva, you sure are going backwards very fast. Probably just to keep your uneducated followers uneducated. You are ALL a bunch of lazy, selfish and corrupt @ssholes whom are there for yourselves and in your eyes there is no such thing as Public Servants.
Stop the laziness, corruption and stealing and start creating a better South Africa.

Thugscub - 22-07-2012, 12:58 PM
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You tell them Hemi

wily me - 22-07-2012, 03:32 PM
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Viva Afica, Viva tha ANC.

Randhir - 22-07-2012, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Mila

Where is our spin doctors?

Originally Posted by wily me

Viva Afica

Lol.

chrisc4290 - 22-07-2012, 03:45 PM
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The (govt) schools I have done some IT work for are all in Cape Town and are all very well run. The head master is dedicated to his/her task, all the teachers turn up every day, there is an active School Governing Body who keep an eagle eye on things. This is obviously not the case in many other schools in SA

What you read in the Sunday Times is appalling. Certainly the minister should be fired from her job. For the money the Treasury spend on education in South Africa, it is absolutely criminal that this situation carries on, month after month. How will SA manage in a few years time when these poorly educated children are too old for school? They will be unemployable and become louts, gangsters and drug-addicts, dependant on crime to finance their lifestyle.

Mouse - 23-07-2012, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by chrisc4290

How will SA manage in a few years time

Sounds like a great time to be investing in security companies

cerebus - 23-07-2012, 08:21 AM
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This is one convincing reason why we're homeschooling.

R13... - 23-07-2012, 08:22 AM
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Great discussion going on here as usual

raind33r - 23-07-2012, 08:43 AM
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913 schools without toilets!

WTF ! If the basics aren't even there, then one can forget about education.

Morons.

Hemps - 23-07-2012, 08:49 AM
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Great discussion going on here as usual

That's because people care and get emotional and angry when stuff like this happens in this day and age, someone is to blame here, so far I have seen no heads roll?
All we can do about it is vote for people that CAN run it properly.

DrYes - 23-07-2012, 09:12 AM
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can only be schools in Limpopo

how the fsck do you teach without textbooks

Garyvdh - 23-07-2012, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by R13...

Great discussion going on here as usual

Any discussion where people point out what a failure the ANC is, is a great Discussion!

Messugga - 23-07-2012, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by chrisc4290

The (govt) schools I have done some IT work for are all in Cape Town and are all very well run. The head master is dedicated to his/her task, all the teachers turn up every day, there is an active School Governing Body who keep an eagle eye on things. This is obviously not the case in many other schools in SA

What you read in the Sunday Times is appalling. Certainly the minister should be fired from her job. For the money the Treasury spend on education in South Africa, it is absolutely criminal that this situation carries on, month after month. How will SA manage in a few years time when these poorly educated children are too old for school? They will be unemployable and become louts, gangsters and drug-addicts, dependant on crime to finance their lifestyle.

I strongly suspect that the guilty schools are rural rather than typical former model-C schools. Unfortunately, the rural schools are exactly the school requiring the best education for their students as they generally have a lot more catching up to do if you look at pass rates and such.

Sinbad - 23-07-2012, 09:30 AM
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Did any of you who are trashing Motshega read Helen Zille's article in defense of her? It certainly opened my eyes.

http://www.da.org.za/newsroom.htm?ac...-item&id=10875

Ironically, we in the Western Cape have experienced Minister Angie Motshekga as one of the few – perhaps the only – Education Ministers since the dawn of democracy 18 years ago who genuinely understands the needs of the school system and is prepared to take some tough decisions to fix it. She stands virtually alone, in the wasteland of education’s “shell state”, where many incompetent cadres masquerade as top officials with fancy titles, but have little understanding of and even less commitment to the needs of education.

Minister Motshekga was, for example, prepared to compel both her officials and school principals to sign performance contracts – but was undermined by President Jacob Zuma who forced her to back down because he did not want to alienate the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union in the run-up to the ANC’s Mangaung elective conference. Under pressure from below and above, the Minister was in an impossible situation. She was prevented from exacting accountability from teachers and officials – but must now accept accountability for failing to turn the ailing system around.

za1 - 23-07-2012, 09:55 AM
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I don't understand why school principals are not held responsible for bunking teachers and why teachers are not tested on their skills on a yearly or 2 yearly basis?
If the teacher can't teach a subject then WTF is he/she doing being a teacher?

sox63 - 23-07-2012, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Randhir

Lol.

LOL, I also laughed at the irony in those posts...

Sinbad - 23-07-2012, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by za1

I don't understand why school principles are not held responsible for bunking teachers and why teachers are not tested on their skills on a yearly or 2 yearly basis?
If the teacher can't teach a subject then WTF is he/she doing being a teacher?

The ANC does not believe in responsibility or accountability. They only believe in loyalty.

JungleBoy - 23-07-2012, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by za1

I don't understand why school principles are not held responsible for bunking teachers and why teachers are not tested on their skills on a yearly or 2 yearly basis?
If the teacher can't teach a subject then WTF is he/she doing being a teacher?

Yes, za1. The school principles are to be held responsible and let's leave the principals out of it