Boer education, black education (Opinion)

Gotta say.... this is the perfect summary of the state and history of education in this s**t hole.
Hats off to the author for getting it right.

It's an interesting angle he uses when he talks about how "classless" the Afrikaners were, I never really thought of it that way but that's very true. Even in the 80's I don't recall there ever being a major class structure in the Afrikaans community between the haves and the have-nots. Rich or poor we attended the same schools, lived and congregated in the same neighbourhoods and attended the same churches etc. The "class structure" was mostly something you saw with English speaking whites, at least in my experience.

"When the Afrikaners took over South Africa, they carried on with their almost classless ways – although strictly within their own ranks. Under apartheid, the Afrikaans ruling class cared very much about the Afrikaans working classes. They found mass employment for them in their railways and post offices. They promoted industrialisation, which enriched the Afrikaner lower classes. Above all, they gave them a very good education. Generations of dedicated, hard-working, highly disciplined Afrikaner teachers advanced the Afrikaans lower classes by giving them good skills and literacy. The Afrikaans rulers often sent their own children to the same schools that the Afrikaans lower classes attended. It is true that under apartheid the Afrikaans leaders oppressed the black majority in a cruel and stupid way, resulting in awful suffering and humiliation, but they always supported their own people, however lowly.

The black ruling classes that took over South Africa in 1994 showed utter contempt for the black lower classes – the same contempt that has been shown in almost all Sub-Saharan countries when they changed from colonial rule to black majority rule. Education is the worst manifestation of this contempt. The ANC elite doesn’t give a damn about the plight of working class black children dying in pit latrines in horrible township and rural schools. I have heard it said by some older black people that ANC education for most black children might be even worse than Bantu education in the past. The black upper classes regard a school with white teachers as the most important mark of their superior status. Mercedes, BMW, Gucci and Louis Vuitton are all very well, but you’ve only really made it when your children go to a “white” school."
 
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EADC said:
State schools should not be defending or promoting any culture.
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It is not quite as simple as that - especially when it involves former Model C schools. In those schools the parents finance the entire school except for the salaries of some of the teachers. The state therefore makes a very small contribution and parents rightfully demand a huge say in the language and culture of the school.
 
Anti-Chris said:
This is again a failure of government... They failed to build more schools and develop quality teachers. The "black" schools are overfilled and the facilities in a state of disrepair, teachers struggle to create an environment conductive of learning, where the "white" schools are generally well maintained with quality teachers... Obviously the "black" parents wants the best for their kids and want to force them into "proper" schools... The "white" parents does not want their kid's schools to become overfilled and is trying by all means to maintain the status quo... Yet they continue to vote for the corrupt ANC...
Vote for change and keep the politician accountable for failure... That is the only way to turn the country around. Stop blaming everything that is "white" for your failure to hold your leaders accountable for their failures of the last couple of decades...
Imagine how many schools could have been built with the R40 000 000 000 that the Guptas, with the help of the ANC cadres, stole from this country's coffers....
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I think you are in the right for the first part - government failed to build and maintain the schools. This should have been the primary objective.


The second part here is you need involved parents to build a good school.
I feel like no one wants to do this, we all want to go to a school that is already good - and be moderately useful. Its lazy but we all do it.
This is why (few) are building up these "previously black" schools.

There are also a few bad actors here though. I'm sure there are parents that want a white school but I feel the big problem is the EFF. They have an agenda here that doesn't seem to follow any logic.
Anything that is too white and too nice must be broken at all costs.
 
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