Parents queue for school enrolments

[The_Ogre]

Oh lol!

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.

Ours is R700

 

[Ninja'd]

/Thanks my vasectomy surgeon.

We all do.

 

[ISP cash cow]

Oh lol!

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.

That's cheap!!

At the beginning of the year I just forked out R24,210.00 for my son's annual school fees and that was with a 10% discount for paying up front for the year.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Oh lol!

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.

Fourways High is 2.4K p.m. - fairly steep if you consider it is a public school and private schools will charge around 6-7K p.m.

 

[The_Ogre]

Fourways High is 2.4K p.m. - fairly steep if you consider it is a public school and private schools will charge around 6-7K p.m.

I agree with you.

I don't know why people wiould think for example R5k is cheap for a public school. When you consider that EVERYTHING at public schools are provided for free from the DoE, its not cheap!

A well run school will ONLY need money to pay the SGB, and various sundries not provided by the DoE (pens, writing books, etc). Even the janitors at school get paid by the government.

 

[Skerminkel]

I agree with you.

I don't know why people wiould think for example R5k is cheap for a public school. When you consider that EVERYTHING at public schools are provided for free from the DoE, its not cheap!

A well run school will ONLY need money to pay the SGB, and various sundries not provided by the DoE (pens, writing books, etc). Even the janitors at school get paid by the government.

No. With DoE funding you will have 40 kids in a class. No admin staff. No music. No sports equipment and fields. You get what you pay for. It's been like that for 25+ years.

 

[noxibox]

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.

That's always been the pass mark.

The South African government can fix it quite easily when they get their heads out of the backsides and put someone hard-nosed and qualified in charge of managing the education system.

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.

That's pretty standard at Cape Town schools, siblings are at the front of the queue automatically.

I don't know why people wiould think for example R5k is cheap for a public school. When you consider that EVERYTHING at public schools are provided for free from the DoE, its not cheap!

A well run school will ONLY need money to pay the SGB, and various sundries not provided by the DoE (pens, writing books, etc). Even the janitors at school get paid by the government.

They use the money to provide as much extra as they can.

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.

That's a great idea if your child speaks Afrikaans. Being taught in a non-mother tongue is a huge impediment for young children.

 

[AstroTurf]

We ended up getting her onto the A list of one of the better schools in our area.

 

[Carol35]

Ours is R700

Lol, I pay my domestics boy for the year upfront..R300 for this year. Mine is R850 for 10 months. They are in the same grade and his stationery list matches my kids' list. Their stationery came to about 1k in Jan.

When I consider that their stationery lists are identical, I can't imagine they learn anything different from each other, he just goes to school in the township and mine in the suburbs, just as I can't imagine what more my girl could learn if she went to school at the private college up the road that charges something like 6k p/m.

I think it's fair to say I'm pretty lucky to live where I do!!

 

[Carol35]

No. With DoE funding you will have 40 kids in a class. No admin staff. No music. No sports equipment and fields. You get what you pay for. It's been like that for 25+ years.

Ahh ok..this make sense!!

 

[Shellyb1]

Schooling is expensive but everyone wants the best they can afford for the kids. Heard on the radio the other day debates about whether it is right or not for parents to lie about their addresses to allow their kids to go to better schools.

Lady from a township called in and she said it was the only thing she could do. quite sad but a reality of our current government. We need to turn schools into money making machines, then the tenders will go out .

One of my staff got home 3am yesterday trying to enrol his son into Northcliff High.

My son is only 2yo and in a Montessori. We already pay R3200pm without the extra murals. So even the current high prices of Private/Public schools will be higher when he goes to "big" school. Fortunately, this Montessori has a primary a high school but I want my kid to go to a more academic/sports oriented school. Hopefully, I can provide.

Definitely a long way from the R150pa my parents paid for my school fees.

 

[Visser]

Since last year the Gauteng education department started forcing schools to start enrollment for the next year very early. The Gauteng education department need to have enrollments completed by June.

They want to force schools to take in certain pupils. They will take the enrollments and inform schools what number of these children then must take in. There are penalties to schools who do not conform to this.

Parents who did not enroll must be referred to the education department who will then assign their children to a specific school.

 

[noxibox]

My son is only 2yo and in a Montessori. We already pay R3200pm without the extra murals. So even the current high prices of Private/Public schools will be higher when he goes to "big" school. Fortunately, this Montessori has a primary a high school but I want my kid to go to a more academic/sports oriented school. Hopefully, I can provide.

There's nothing un-academic about Montessori. Quite the opposite, I'd consider them to be an academically superior environment. More like university level learning methods. Typical schools also tend to offer limited sport options, then insist children take one of those, so schools that have no internal sports have the advantage of allowing parents to find the right sport for their child.