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Pupils with 25% being passed
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Kornhub
Blackburn Fan
Oh I got that too, but became fscked up maths in high school. Once! Only once. Landed up matriculating with a distinction...
lived666
Executive Member
You really think kids care that much?
My daughter gives most days extra help after school before sports, between 30-45 minutes a day, and she can count on one hand the kids that show up.
A colleague of hers was busy during the week so he offered free Saturday lessons, after 2 weeks when not a single child pitched up he gave up.
If my folks found out I got lashed at school I ended up getting another lashing when I got home. So much for double jeopardy
Teaching is taken is because it is easy... If you aren't bright and have no talent, teaching is the most often chosen option.
3rd year teaching has the students taking 1st year math, the BSc class is grouped with the teachers who make it there.
To accommodate for the amount of students in the exam a large lecture hall was booked, this is normally used for 200+ people.
There were 60 who made it to the exam overall.
Quite different from when you had to study a BSc or BCom and then select teaching as your Honours degree.
Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
No way dude, teaching is a difficult skill that isn't for everyone. I'm fairly highly skilled with what some might consider a "difficult" degree, but I absolutely suck at imparting that knowledge onto people. I can't teach to save my life, and I've tried by means of trying to help matriculants.
lived666
Executive Member
Nonsense, unless you are referring to LO teachers, then yeh, maybe, but science and maths, not that easy.
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
As a parent with 3 children (one in Grade 7, one starting Grade R, and littlest geek still at home) I welcome articles like this as the ANC is ensuring that my kids will continue to have an advantage when they graduate.
My daughter is a straight A student and when finishes school, she will be in the top 5% with eases with nothing much between her and those that just got through. She will not be competing against hundreds of matriculants who go distinction unlike me. She will also find it easier to find work when prospective employers look at her report vs the 300 others who all got F's.
The ANC is creating a wider gap with out education system than the old government ever succeeded in doing so.
This is the reality and I see the realistic opportunities
My daughter is a straight A student and when finishes school, she will be in the top 5% with eases with nothing much between her and those that just got through. She will not be competing against hundreds of matriculants who go distinction unlike me. She will also find it easier to find work when prospective employers look at her report vs the 300 others who all got F's.
The ANC is creating a wider gap with out education system than the old government ever succeeded in doing so.
This is the reality and I see the realistic opportunities
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
Those that can, do!
Those that can't. teach!
But on a serious note, teaching is also the easiest way to get a bursary in this country. I was glad to hear my daughter wants to become a teach as its a dead given her university education is sorted. My one little regret that I did not apply for a bursary as a teacher when I left school.
I'm going to pick on you just because, I do apologise.
Read the entire post and see how I did specifically say that the teachers could not make it into the 1st year math exam
Can't pass without that!
But on a more serious note, I am actually being quite serious. I did not say they made it through but the bottom feeders are mostly the ones who take teaching. Some want to teach maths and science and take 2-3 years to pass a 1st year BSc course required for the degree.
Mike Hoxbig
Honorary Master
I'm going to pick on you just because, I do apologise.
Read the entire post and see how I did specifically say that the teachers could not make it into the 1st year math exam
Can't pass without that!
But on a more serious note, I am actually being quite serious. I did not say they made it through but the bottom feeders are mostly the ones who take teaching. Some want to teach maths and science and take 2-3 years to pass a 1st year BSc course required for the degree.
The bottom feeders usually take up a BA.
WaxLyrical
Honorary Master
I can understand the concept of passing them through the system where they'll eventually fall out by themselves.
Keep failing them and you'll have senior teens in primary school and a massive backlog.
Not a healthy situation imo.
Keep failing them and you'll have senior teens in primary school and a massive backlog.
Not a healthy situation imo.
Quite few in my year went that route surprisingly enough. From the teachers I keep in touch with pedagogy is an unknown word.
The course isn't what it used to be I'm afraid.
Even then, there is a backdoor that a lot of people are using in taking a short course that has certain subjects and somehow the university allows them to do an honours degree in Education without having the prerequisites done. These teachers then become a problem as they are even worse off than the ones who did a straight BEd.
The information here isn't purely my own, I chat regularly with the head of a high school in my area. The students matriculating there who don't do well say, "Oh well there's always teaching."
It shouldn't be, but it is seen as a soft course. Foundation phase is especially.
Albereth
Honorary Master
You think they were bright enough to have even made 25%?