Basic education not possible now

I always hate how the government goes on about tertiary education, about forcing tertiary institutions to accept STUDENTS (not blood learners!) from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, they ignore primary and secondary education and hope no one will notice.

Its like a lottery - if you are so lucky as to get a place in a tertiary institution, good for you! But wait, the ANC has made sure that your primary and secondary schooling is so bad that you are almost guaranteed to fail. And they use this lottery to fool people into thinking they are helping education, because there is a slim chance that you could go to university, get a degree, and improve your life.
 
When I was in school we also returned out books for the guys coming into our standard could reuse them.

The problem with this currently ... or so they said on the radio....is that the curriculum keeps on changing and therefore the books becomes outdated so much quicker and needs to be reprinted.
 
Ockie said:
When I was in school we also returned out books for the guys coming into our standard could reuse them.

The problem with this currently ... or so they said on the radio....is that the curriculum keeps on changing and therefore the books becomes outdated so much quicker and needs to be reprinted.
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I seriously doubt that primary and high school curriculum needs to change that rapidly?
 
AstroTurf said:
Me as well.

Also, my wife told me this morning that Grade 1 is now for 7 year olds?
Waste an entire year when the child should be learning the basics for what???
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Grade 1 has always been for 7 year olds?
 
Cloudster said:
I seriously doubt that primary and high school curriculum needs to change that rapidly?
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Dunno...just passing on what I heard on the radio. They were interviewing someone about it and the person doing the interview brought it up that why dont they just reuse old books like we used to do back then...and this person its because the curriculum keeps changing..so the books that might have been passed down is outdated and cant be used by next years students.
 
Cloudster said:
I seriously doubt that primary and high school curriculum needs to change that rapidly?
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They change the curriculum REGULARLY nowadays.. how else are they going to get their brothers and cousins work to print new books if they don't "need" to replace them because the curriculum hasn't changed.
 
daveza said:
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6 turning 7?

Anyway, I don't think that the age restriction thing is a big deal. Kids starting school younger than others often had a disadvantage in terms of development anyway. A year makes a huge difference when your still a child.

While it may have not been the best rule to implement, I can atleast see some kind of sense behind it.
 
JamSync said:
No you had to be 6 or be turning 6.

Well I turned 6 in sub a which later became grade 1.
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I was 6 turning 7 when I entered Grade 1, as well as everyone else in my Grade. It's always been the general norm. So that means when you hit Matric everyone will be turning 18. Which means most people start University at the age of 18 turning 19.
 
You must have turned 6 by the time the first term starts. Wynberg Boys' Junior School makes this stipulation. However, they also highly recommend that pre-schoolers go to Grade R so they can become familiar with school discipline, the written word, simple arithmetic, getting along with other boys, educational activities.

In the UK, you can enroll your child at 4 years. At this age their brains are considered to have developed sufficiently to cope with school work and what it entails. My mother was a primary school teacher in England for 40 years and considered 4, going on 5 the ideal age to begin. By 7 she had some children playing the piano at concerts. Of course there was no TV and mobile phones then, which offer a great distraction to school work.
 
S1ght said:
I was 6 turning 7 when I entered Grade 1, as well as everyone else in my Grade. It's always been the general norm. So that means when you hit Matric everyone will be turning 18. Which means most people start University at the age of 18 turning 19.
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When I was at school 6 turning 7 was definitely the majority. Besides myself I recall only a handful of other students in my year that were 5 in class 1.

In my experience it does lead to the child having friends across multiple grades because while your child studies with the kids from his grade he plays sport with the kids from the grade below.
 
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