schools

  1. LazyLion

    Teacher filmed beating pupil

    An Eastern Cape teacher has been filmed beating a Grade 10 pupil, the Dispatch Online reported on Wednesday. She and the rest of the class were beaten with a stick when they failed to produce maths homework on May 8, the pupil at Ndabankulu Senior Secondary School, in Butterworth, told the...
  3. LazyLion

    ConCourt to hear Admissions Policy Case

    The Constitutional Court will hear arguments on Thursday relating to the admission policy of a former model C school. According to Section27, Rivonia Primary School in Johannesburg refused to admit a Grade One pupil in 2011, saying it had no space. The education department intervened and...
  4. LazyLion

    Big Bucks, No Bang, DA tells Motshekga

    Despite an education budget of billions, the system does not work, the DA told Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Tuesday. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on Motshekga's budget vote, Democratic Alliance MP Annette Lovemore said the situation in public education could...
  5. LazyLion

    SADTU Protest March

    Striking SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) members were gathering in an open space in Marabastad, on the outskirts of the Pretoria CBD, on Wednesday morning. More than 20 buses pulled into the old Putco bus depot, where they dropped off striking teachers from various provinces. Police...
  6. LazyLion

    Pupils told to stay away from School

    Cosatu and teachers' unions have asked high school pupils to take a day off to join a protest march against education inequality, it was reported on Tuesday. "We feel everyone must make a sacrifice of one day to highlight the inadequacy of their schools," Western Cape Congress of SA Trade...
  7. LazyLion

    Dutch Schools Closed, Police Deployed after 4chan Shooting threat

    Armed police were deployed and schools closed in the western Dutch city of Leiden on Monday after an apparent student threat to "shoot my Dutch teacher and as many students as I can". A decision was taken late Sunday night to close secondary schools to thousands of pupils following a tip-off...
  8. LazyLion

    Violence in Schools Worrying: CJCP

    One in five secondary school pupils has experienced some form violence while at school, the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (CJCP) said on Wednesday. "This translates to just over a million learners across the country," CJCP research director Lezanne Leoschut said in Johannesburg...
  9. LazyLion

    Stabbed Joburg Teen in Stable Condition

    A Johannesburg schoolgirl is in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed with a pair of scissors by a fellow pupil, officials said on Wednesday. Gauteng education spokesman Charles Phahlane said a delegation would visit Dr Malan Hoerskool in Meyerton, south of Johannesburg, where...
  10. LazyLion

    Creecy Announces School Registration Period

    Parents of school-going children in Gauteng will have to finalise admissions earlier than usual. On Monday, the province's education MEC Barbara Creecy announced that admissions for the 2014 academic year would start on Tuesday. Parents were encouraged to go to their nearest school to...
  11. LazyLion

    First Term Over, Some Schools Still Without Textbooks

    The first school term is over and some schools have not yet received textbooks, according to a report on Wednesday. Limpopo and the Eastern Cape were the most affected, The Star reported. SA Democratic Teachers Association (Sadtu) spokeswoman Nomusa Cembi said the union had been receiving...
  12. LazyLion

    Western Cape Schools Interdict Explained

    The reasons for granting an urgent interdict stopping the closure of 17 schools were handed down by the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Judge Elizabeth Baartman briefly entered court room two to explain that the interdict was granted in December and that the court was now providing...
  13. LazyLion

    Many Pupils 'Waiting for Textbooks': Survey

    About 54 percent of South African pupils claim they do not have all the textbooks they need for school, a survey revealed on Monday. Forty percent said they had all their textbooks and five percent said they had no textbooks, consumer insights company Pondering Panda said. "The experience...
  14. LazyLion

    Groups Want School Admissions Ruling Overturned

    The department of basic education must be empowered to decide the capacity of public schools, Equal Education (EE) and the Centre for Child Law (CCL) said on Thursday. The two groups would apply to be amici curiae, friends of the court, in the department's Constitutional Court challenge...
  15. J

    Boksburg school swaps books for tablets

    SA school swaps books for tablets A Boksburg school has traded textbooks for tablets in an attempt to embrace an “e-school” mentality
  16. LazyLion

    School forbids Deaf Student from signing his own name, becuase it looks like a gun!

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/08/school-says-deaf-boys-name-looks-too-much-like-gun-gesture.html Bwahaha, Nuclear Facepalm! :D Here is the facebook group!
  17. LazyLion

    South Africans to have 14 years of school?

    http://mg.co.za/article/2012-08-15-sa-to-have-14-years-of-school They can't even do the current twelve years right, now they want another two years to screw up? :wtf:
  18. LazyLion

    Ban on 'Model C' bonuses for Teachers, Principals

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/12/31/ban-on-model-c-bonuses So the crap lazy teachers will get the same pay as the hard working conscientious teachers. Fark that, I think they should just start more private schools and leave the crap ANC schools to their own failure. This country is...
  19. jes

    Internet infrastructure audit for Western Cape schools

    Internet infrastructure audit for Western Cape schools A survey of information technology (IT) resources could be the first step towards providing high-speed internet for Western Cape schools, the province's education department said Monday.
  20. C

    High school rugby matches at night

    Last night my old school played their first game under lights. It seemed to me like it could be quite a nice idea, as it allows a lot more people to come and watch the games. I'm just wondering if other schools around the country are doing this too. Also, what do you guyts think, is it a good...
  21. LazyLion

    Pupil stabs another boy... a year later... again

    http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2384739,00.html ummm... can someone tell me why this guy was still walking around a year after he stabbed someone else to death? :eek: do we just not lock people up anymore cos it is against their human rights?
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