Basic education not possible now

Mike Hoxbig said:
When I was in grade 1 back in 89, it was 6->7 if you were born after June, and 5->6 if you were born before July.
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When I was born back in '89 >.< I think we can all at least agree that most kids were either 5 or 6 at the beginning of Grade 1 :p
 
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I've put 2 kids through government schools, ok one is still at high school, and I never knew the government gave text books????

At the end of the year the school gives you a list and you have to buy the books.... I thought it was like that for everyone until this text book saga broke out.
 
lived666 said:
I've put 2 kids through government schools, ok one is still at high school, and I never knew the government gave text books????

At the end of the year the school gives you a list and you have to buy the books.... I thought it was like that for everyone until this text book saga broke out.
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At my high school you paid a book levy which was a fraction of the cost of the actual books. Then you got your textbooks for the year and had to sign for them. At the end of the year you handed them back.

This system makes far more sense than everyone buying new textbooks every year.
 
lived666 said:
I've put 2 kids through government schools, ok one is still at high school, and I never knew the government gave text books????

At the end of the year the school gives you a list and you have to buy the books.... I thought it was like that for everyone until this text book saga broke out.
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Some parents just don't have the money and I am fine with them not having to pay, or only pay within their means. what I object to is the corruption in the whole story. The books are way overpriced so someone is making super profits. It is set up so that a new book is needed every year - super super profits. And they modify the curriculum so you can't even take an eraser to the books.

And what gets me is just how many people must be in the know and they either shut up or are too thick to see that this is just wrong and wasteful.

I am pretty sure that it could be cheaper and without the logistics nightmare. Motshega was right - it is sabotage. Not by the person who was too lazy to deliver books but by the government and the departments of education. No wonder that they are running around to support the fat cow - they are all guilty. And that includes the WC education department.
 
By age restriction, I made it into grade 1 by one day. B-day is 29 June and cutoff was 30 June. From July onward you'd have to wait until the next year. So I was always the youngest in my year (being 5 1/2 going into grade 1).

I also remember the days of hand-me-down textbooks and having to cover them and return them. And if your own exercise books weren't covered then you'd be in the dwang too.
 
Where are SADTU, SACE, Section 27, etc on this matter?

Okay, Section 27 took the department court so maybe I'm being a little harsh. But seriously.

Education sucks because of the sheer incompetence and corruption within the government.

And the curriculum changes to justify the printing of new books every year, not because there is anything wrong with last year's one.
 
When I was in junior school and high school, textbooks were given to us and then you returned them at the end of the year.
 
I'm still waiting for the usual ANC suspects proclaiming how all this is caused by apartheid and what a jolly good thing this pseudo-government is that they chose for us. :mad:
 
JamSync said:
Very sad and unacceptable news.

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Looking at all the ANC corruption and tax fund laundering and financial decimation it's hard to believe this story, it not a question of "lack of funding" it's a fact that there is nothing left of the financial resources after the ANC and their officials completed their plundering.
 
evilstebunny said:
I'm still waiting for the usual ANC suspects proclaiming how all this is caused by apartheid and what a jolly good thing this pseudo-government is that they chose for us. :mad:
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Bar a few some ANC zealot idiots never reply on factual data, they are to busy supporting Malema and the official legal ANC corruption and plundering!
 
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