Article: Matric pass rate improved in 2012

"There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live."
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Could be the ANC today.

Back then people protested against Bantu education, today it's the best thing since sliced bread.
 
ponder said:
Could be the ANC today.

Back then people protested against Bantu education, today it's the best thing since sliced bread.
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Well since the policymakers are products of Bantu education who are completely out of their depth, are you surprised?
 
daveza said:
And this is a compulsory subject !? Yet we still have the highest rate of high school pregnancies on the planet ?
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what a BS subject!!!!!

teach you how to have sex without contact HIV rather than moral standard for not to have sex under age / many sex partners?
teach you how to make case in CCMA when you have a job instead of why you have to work hard?
 
DreamKing said:
what a BS subject!!!!!

teach you how to have sex without contact HIV rather than moral standard for not to have sex under age / many sex partners?
teach you how to make case in CCMA when you have a job instead of why you have to work hard?
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Really? Thats a far cry from what guidance classes used to teach us.
 
:D

Back in our day, we never got spoken to. Papa would just beat us as soon as he walked in the door :p
 
DJ... said:
Absolutely not. I'm advocating a higher standard of basic mathematics examination. Recognising shapes, understanding what a percentage is and being able to calculate change from a hundred rand note is not matriculant standard. This is the type of thing I, and I expect many people, were taught in primary school...



Which is why standard grade existed. What was wrong with it...?



Maths Literacy assumes you are stupid. It really and truly does. It also assumes that later on in life you will never amount to anything more than being tasked with counting to a hundred and recognising what a triangle in the music shop is. We cannot continue lowering the bar while expecting to these matriculants to be the catalysts for future development and economic prosperity.

You cannot empower the youth to be productive members of society when you assume that 50% of them are incapable of being so in the first place...
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Try as you may to force people to do Maths but some pupils just don't have the aptitude for it. However it does not mean that they are stupid. So why waste their time and effort over someting that they will discard at the earliest opportunity anyway ?
 
JungleBoy said:
Try as you may to force people to do Maths but some pupils just don't have the aptitude for it. However it does not mean that they are stupid. So why waste their time and effort over someting that they will discard at the earliest opportunity anyway ?
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Then the same people should have realistic expectations of what they can study for. As mentioned previously, they should be mentored/streamed into artisan professions or some such.
 
Kosmik said:
Then the same people should have realistic expectations of what they can study for. As mentioned previously, they should be mentored/streamed into artisan professions or some such.
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But isn't this a strong point for Maths literacy? Those kids are not expected to go on to study engineering after matric.
 
Kosmik said:
It wasn't "Bubba's waiting for you", it was "Papa wag vir jou."
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Jees... your dad even waited for you? I'm impressed, he must have loved you alot.

Mine would just arrive home, beat us (just because we had to have done something wrong), then go on with the evening.....
 
JungleBoy said:
But isn't this a strong point for Maths literacy? Those kids are not expected to go on to study engineering after matric.
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Yup. Get them out there with at least some useful skills...
 
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