Parents queue for school enrolments

Yip and your only other alternative is private schooling which starts off costing an arm and a leg and increases with each grade.
 
Sinbad said:
Correct. Government has failed utterly at providing sufficient quality schools and teachers.
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Well I know the quality of some rural schools is bad, the curriculum is bad and the teachers are sometimes poorly trained, but I never knew there was an issue just getting INTO a run-of-the-mill school these days. I mean this is a quantity problem, not quality. It's like the licensing department took over the school system.
 
TJ99 said:
Well I know the quality of some rural schools is bad, the curriculum is bad and the teachers are sometimes poorly trained, but I never knew there was an issue just getting INTO a run-of-the-mill school these days. I mean this is a quantity problem, not quality. It's like the licensing department took over the school system.
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Look how the likes of fourways, sunninghill, Paulshof, Dainfern, Rivonia etc have grown in terms of high density housing. Houses in bryanston being knocked down to put up townhouses.

Then ask yourself when last a new government school opened anywhere in that area?
 
Sinbad said:
Look how the likes of fourways, sunninghill, Paulshof, Dainfern, Rivonia etc have grown in terms of high density housing. Houses in bryanston being knocked down to put up townhouses.

Then ask yourself when last a new government school opened anywhere in that area?
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Now that I think about it, I don't remember any new public schools opening in Pretoria or Centurion either in the last 10 years either. I guess the gubmint had more important things to build with the limited budget, like security pools, security chicken coops and security e-troll gantries.
 
AstroTurf said:
We went to 4 schools initially but the one turned us down as we are English.
The principal I mentioned earlier wants to try put our girl in an Afrikaans class. He says that they are much smaller and therefore she will get a better education.
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Well, there you have your strategy. Blue ocean, and all.

Sinbad said:
Look how the likes of fourways, sunninghill, Paulshof, Dainfern, Rivonia etc have grown in terms of high density housing. Houses in bryanston being knocked down to put up townhouses.

Then ask yourself when last a new government school opened anywhere in that area?
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True. Big fail, but if you look at the scarcity of township schools you will have sympathy for the challenge of providing enough schools.

A big positive from the story is that at least the formerly disadvantaged (or whatever euphemism you prefer) understands the value of good education.
 
Some friends of ours just found out that their son got rejected for both of the schools they applied to. He's English and this is a heavily Afrikaans area, so that's one factor that limits his choices. I've no idea what they will do now, maybe go as far as Gordon's Bay (from Strand) to find a place. Our oldest got into the English class at our local primary, which means the others will most likely get in as well. I feel very fortunate.
 
Skerminkel said:
Well, there you have your strategy. Blue ocean, and all.



True. Big fail, but if you look at the scarcity of township schools you will have sympathy for the challenge of providing enough schools.

A big positive from the story is that at least the formerly disadvantaged (or whatever euphemism you prefer) understands the value of good education.
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Education gets the largest slice of the country's budget. Given this, you'd expect things to be improving. Given the fact that it's not, I put it to you that the government doesn't understand HOW to do education.
All that money is being wasted, siphoned off, tenderised, and otherwise pissed up against the wall. R230bn of it in the 2013 budget.
Teachers certainly don't earn a decent salary. Facilities are not great. Where is the money going?
 
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Sinbad said:
Education gets the largest slice of the country's budget. Given this, you'd expect things to be improving. Given the fact that it's not, I put it to you that the government doesn't understand HOW to do education.
All that money is being wasted, siphoned off, tenderised, and otherwise pissed up against the wall. R230bn of it in the 2013 budget.
Teachers certainly don't earn a decent salary. Facilities are not great. Where is the money going?
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My area has 7 primary schools and 5 secondary.

Three of the primary schools were built within the last 7 years and two of the secondary schools within the last five or six years and another is opening in July this year.

I should just also point out that my area is surrounded by lower-middle income areas so that's a massive contributing factor
 
Yep when my son was enrolled in school my wife was at the school at 5 in the morning. she tried to enrol him into two schools and we could then just decline the one that we didn't one. Ironically the school that we thought would decline approved him and the school that was for our area declined him.

Anyway that's past as he is now in Matric and so we need to start with the varsity thang!!
 
Sinbad said:
Education gets the largest slice of the country's budget. Given this, you'd expect things to be improving. Given the fact that it's not, I put it to you that the government doesn't understand HOW to do education.
All that money is being wasted, siphoned off, tenderised, and otherwise pissed up against the wall. R230bn of it in the 2013 budget.
Teachers certainly don't earn a decent salary. Facilities are not great. Where is the money going?
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No one with a kitten avatar "puts it to me!" :twisted:

...but, being a rational human being, I cannot argue with your statement. :whistle:

ISP cash cow said:
Anyway that's past as he is now in Matric and so we need to start with the varsity thang!!
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Surely with all the effort you spent on getting him through school, he can manage a varsity application himself?
 
Can someone please tell me why some people enrol their kids in private schools ...

... before I tell them why ...
 
Picard said:
Can someone please tell me why some people enrol their kids in private schools ...

... before I tell them why ...
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Cause we don't want to go through the same cr@p as the peeps that send their kids to public school.

That said, my eldest is in matric now. Second eldest left private school to go to home school last year and my youngest is leaving private for home school in a few months.
 
Picard said:
Can someone please tell me why some people enrol their kids in private schools ...

... before I tell them why ...
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Because it is literally impossible to get your kid into a decent public school in my area. At least across the schools in my area, none of the public schools can provide a high enough standard of education to ensure that my kid will have an advantage for future studies or employment. If it was as easy as you make it out to be, I doubt anyone would pay over 120K p.a. for private schooling if you can have the same level of education for 30K p.a.

Don't get me wrong, there are exceptions to this for public schools, but the level of consistency is not great. Even in my kid's previous private school it was perfectly acceptable that certain subjects could be passed with 40% (which in itself is not objective, as none of his peers could even do simple maths according to grade 7 standards). Educational system is in shambles and I can not see how the government would fix this.
 
TJ99 said:
So people have to queue up to get their brats into a PUBLIC SCHOOL, 8 months ahead of time? Like it's Harvard or something?

What a laugh this circus-country has become. I imagine I'd be pretty ticked off if I was a breeder.
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Yip.

Go to any school in any of the townships and there's no queuing issue.
 
WaxLyrical said:
Yip.

Go to any school in any of the townships and there's no queuing issue.
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Yup, 50% just rocks up on the first day and demand to be let in. And then they wait 6 months for text books and desks. Maybe queueing 8 months before is a better system. Not good, just less bad.
 
satanboy said:
/Thanks my vasectomy surgeon.
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Oh lol! :D

Ive never heard of parents queuing in CT..and we have never had a problem getting our kids into schools in our area. My daughter got into the local Primary automatically because my son was there. And 30-120k pa school fees? wow! Ours are 8.5k and she is getting a pretty decent public school education.
 
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