Schools vandalised in protest over exam options

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Violence erupted at high schools in northern KwaZulu-Natal last week, apparently as a result of anger over the Department of Basic Education’s controversial new modularised exams.

Three Pongola schools were believed to have been vandalised and set alight following the protest last week. However, police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele could yesterday confirm only two incidents.

“On Monday, pupils allegedly broke school windows during a school meeting in one of the high schools… Pongola police arrested a 20-year-old suspect and charged him for malicious damage to property,” she said.

“On Thursday, at about 8am, a group of pupils allegedly stole cash and laptops from the staff room and set the school property alight… A case of malicious damage to property was opened at Pongola police station.

“No arrest has been made at this stage, but the stolen cash was recovered by police”.

National Teachers Union (Natu) deputy president Allen Thompson said he had been in contact with a union member at one of the schools, and that the unrest was because matriculants who were registered to modularise their final exams – which means they write some of them now and the rest, next year – were unhappy.

“When they registered, they were not given a clear understanding of how it would work. They thought they would still be able to change their minds and write all of their exams together, if they wanted to,” Thompson said yesterday. “But that is not the case.”


Modularisation allows progressed pupils – who did not meet the promotional requirements in Grade 10 or 11 and were subsequently “pushed through” to Grade 12 – to split their examinations over two sittings: one at end of the year and another, the following June.
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More at: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...dalised-in-protest-over-exam-options-11662786
 
Fcken AfricaLOL

Slightly O/T because this is not about feesmustfall, but the message remains the same.

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“On Monday, pupils allegedly broke school windows during a school meeting in one of the high schools… Pongola police arrested a 20-year-old suspect and charged him for malicious damage to property,” she said.
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20 year old suspect...pushed through Grade10 and 11
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There's the problem. Matric is just not for everyone. The guy is probably frustrated spending his days with kids more Intelligent than him, struggling with work he has no desire to learn.
 
rietrot said:
There's the problem. Matric is just not for everyone. The guy is probably frustrated spending his days with kids more Intelligent than him, struggling with work he has no desire to learn.
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That's a point. Back in the day if you weren't academically inclined you went to technical college and became a sparky or a grease monkey. Do kids today have this option?

If you're 20 and still at school you are going fccking no where in life let's face it.
 
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