Glen Vista High School fire(?)

[Temujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1427560556488187912

 

[R13...]

I for some reason read the heading as "fibre" lol. And was like WTF?! let me open this and see.

 

[thestaggy]

Yes, the story is true. I went to Glenvista and still live close by.

Grade 10 pupils were ''protesting'' writing prelim exams, and as you do in SA, you burn and destroy things when ''protesting''. The real kicker is that it was a Life Orientation exam to be written. The ''protest'' was a success as now the prelims have been postponed.

The guilty students have been identified.

 

[Gone Fishing]

Yes, the story is true. I went to Glenvista and still live close by.

Grade 10 pupils were ''protesting'' writing prelim exams, and as you do in SA, you burn an destroy things when ''protesting''. The real kicker was it was a Life Orientation exam to be written. The ''protest'' was a success as now the prelims have been postponed.

The guilty students have been identified.

Obviously they failed life orientation?

 

[thestaggy]

Obviously they failed life orientation?

So in a round about way, the exam was a success.

 

[LandyMan]

Yes, the story is true. I went to Glenvista and still live close by.

Grade 10 pupils were ''protesting'' writing prelim exams, and as you do in SA, you burn and destroy things when ''protesting''. The real kicker is that it was a Life Orientation exam to be written. The ''protest'' was a success as now the prelims have been postponed.

The guilty students have been identified.

Grade 10s writing prelims? Prelims for what?

 

[pinball wizard]

Prelims for what?

To be disorientated about life apparently.

 

[Emjay]

Grade 10s writing prelims? Prelims for what?

Most likely just a typo.

 

[UrBaN963]

Damn, that's my old high school

 

[R13...]

Damn, that's my old high school

Went to the dogs some years back apparently,

Rampant corruption at Glenvista High School

The Gauteng education department is pursuing a criminal and civil case against former officials of the Glenvista High School, following a report that highlights rampant corruption at the school. "I am shocked by this. This is the worst corrupt school I have ever come across," Education MEC...

mybroadband.co.za

Glenvista High School pupil attacks teacher

Boot party is different. You have steel toed boots and then you kick the crap out of someone. though I would kick him once and he will remember it for a long time. Much more satisfying, but a lot more crap for everyone is you get caught.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[thestaggy]

Went to the dogs some years back apparently,

Rampant corruption at Glenvista High School

The Gauteng education department is pursuing a criminal and civil case against former officials of the Glenvista High School, following a report that highlights rampant corruption at the school. "I am shocked by this. This is the worst corrupt school I have ever come across," Education MEC...

mybroadband.co.za

Glenvista High School pupil attacks teacher

Boot party is different. You have steel toed boots and then you kick the crap out of someone. though I would kick him once and he will remember it for a long time. Much more satisfying, but a lot more crap for everyone is you get caught.

mybroadband.co.za

Yep, the school is shot.

I'm under no illusion that it was ever one of Jo'burg's finest, but for a public high school it was one of the better ones in the south. It has gradually gone to hell in the last few years though.

 

[thestaggy]

Damn, that's my old high school

What year did you matriculate? I finished in 2003.

 

[Flanders]

This is why we had corporal punishment which meant if you tried a stunt like this you'd face dire consequences among which would mean a caning from, not the principal, but the SAPS. And nobody wanted that.

Maar nou het julle mos mEnSe rEgTe.

That, and the fact that now the race card would be played with the curtains still ablaze.

 

[borro]

Thinking outside the tinderbox.

 

[The_Mowgs]

This is why we had corporal punishment which meant if you tried a stunt like this you'd face dire consequences among which would mean a caning from, not the principal, but the SAPS. And nobody wanted that.

Maar nou het julle mos mEnSe rEgTe.

That, and the fact that now the race card would be played with the curtains still ablaze.

Best movie scene ever!

Fok sokker!

 

[ShaunSA]

Well their plan certainly worked

 

[LandyMan]

Best movie scene ever!

Fok sokker!

And now he is no more

 

[UrBaN963]

What year did you matriculate? I finished in 2003.

2004

 

[thestaggy]

Update: The students still wrote the exam. Outside.

Dumbasses.

Glenvista High pupils set school hall on fire in exam protest, but it went ahead outside

Pupils from Glenvista High south of Johannesburg allegedly torched a part of the school hall, the Gauteng education department said on Tuesday.

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[thestaggy]

We are not paying for Glenvista High fire damage, says Lesufi​

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi on Tuesday said his department would not pay for refurbishment of the Glenvista High School hall which was allegedly set alight by pupils.

“We are devastated to discover pupils could go as far as committing an act of arson, destroying school infrastructure in the process, to escape an important assessment. We will not fix the damage caused by the fire,” Lesufi said after a visit to the school.

One grade 12 pupil, said the situation was devastating, especially because it was their last year. “We now had to write our exam outside. It was difficult as there were many distractions, it was hot and exhausting,” she said.

Another pupil, said it was exhausting to write outside in the heat. “It's very disappointing and scary to see what kids [pupils] our age are capable of doing. It puts a very bad image on Glenvista,” she said.

An estimated R400,000 worth of damage was done to the school hall.