Shock-Plan for Gauteng Schools

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Unfortunately I have it only in Afrikaans from Beeld:

Sommige stedelike skole in Gauteng moet met ’n townshipskool saamsmelt vir “beter integrasie tussen skole” en om gevolglik ’n nie-rassige omgewing te skep.

Dit is die strewe van Panyaza Lesufi, LUR vir onderwys in Gauteng, wat reeds ’n tegniese span aangestel het om te kyk hoe ’n omgewing van “sosiale kohesie” geskep kan word.

Lesufi het aan Beeld gesê hy wil die moontlikheid ondersoek om so ’n stelsel – ’n eerste in die land – bekend te stel. Hy sou ook wou hê dat so ’n gesament*like skool met een skoolhoof en een beheerliggaam funksioneer.

“Ek het ’n tegniese span aangestel wat binne ses maande terugvoering aan my sal gee.

“Op grond van hul terugvoering sal die konsep dan vir openbare deelname oopgestel word en ons sal dan besluit op die pad vorentoe.

“My doel is dit: Ek wil hê ons moet ’n nie-rassige atmosfeer skep. Ek hou nie van die huidige toedrag van sake nie. Dis die enigste manier waarop ons ontslae gaan raak van die stereo*tipes in ons samelewing en ons kinders nader aan mekaar gaan bring.

“Die huidige skoolstelsel in die provinsie is oud en moet verander word. Ons lewe nog verby mekaar.

“Ons is dit aan die kinders van 1976 verskuldig om sáám skool te gaan,” het Lesufi gesê.

Hy weet daar sal dalk teenkanting wees, maar het benadruk dat “leerlinge moet begin om mekaar te leer ken”.

“Dit is ’n langtermyndoelwit, maar dit is waarom dit ondersoek word.”

Paul Colditz, uitvoerende hoof van die Federasie van Beheerliggame van Suid-Afrikaanse Skole (Fedsas), het gesê by die eerste oogopslag dink hy nie dit sal werk nie.

Hy meen ’n beter plan sal wees om twee skole in ’n vennootskap met mekaar te laat funksioneer.

“Maar jy kan nie twee skole wat relatief ver van mekaar is met een beheerliggaam en een skoolhoof laat funksioneer nie.

“Dit sal beter wees om ’n vennootskap tussen twee skole te skep waar ’n goed funksionerende skool en ’n swak funksionerende skool saam met mekaar kan werk.

“Die hele filosofie van onderwys is dat die gemeenskap self verantwoordelikheid vir hul skool moet aanvaar.

“Dis waarom die meeste lede van ’n beheerliggaam ouers moet wees – ouers wie se aanspraak dit self moet wees om verantwoordelikheid te aanvaar.

“Nou sit jy met twee kampusse waarvan die gemeenskappe ver van mekaar is en in kultuur en waardes radikaal van mekaar kan verskil.

“Op die een of ander manier gaan die een skade ly en die ander een voorkeur kry.”

Dit klink vir hom na ’n “ideologies gedrewe” voorstel.

Ted Townsend, woordvoerder van die Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie, het gesê dit is al elders ter wêreld beproef, maar het misluk.

Hoewel die unie ’n voorstel of proses sal ondersteun wat daarop gemik is om nasiebou en die gehalte van die onderwysstelsel te bevorder, sal so ’n proses in die verlede moes gewys het dat dit doeltreffend is.
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http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2014-06-17-lur-se-skok-plan-vir-skole
 
Sommige stedelike skole in Gauteng moet met ’n townshipskool saamsmelt vir “beter integrasie tussen skole” en om gevolglik ’n nie-rassige omgewing te skep.
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Basically.... some state schools in Gauteng must merge with a Township school to have "better intergration between schools" and to have a non-racial country.


I'd love to see what they mean and what schools in Gauteng they are talking about
 
EK weet nie waar om te begin om te sê dat dit die kakste idee nog ooit was deur 'n onderwysadministrateur nie.
 
Nerfherder said:
Basically.... some state schools in Gauteng must merge with a Township school to have "better intergration between schools" and to have a non-racial country.


I'd love to see what they mean and what schools in Gauteng they are talking about
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Precisely!

Most of our primary and high schools are already full to capacity. They will not be able to integrate a second school.

However, it appears this guy wants to mix the children of the two schools. They will probably send letters to the parents of half the children of one school, informing them their children will now move to the poor school and same to parents of half the children at the poor school...
 
Picard said:
EK weet nie waar om te begin om te sê dat dit die kakste idee nog ooit was deur 'n onderwysadministrateur nie.
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En daar was al baie *** besluite gewees!

Forced integration only creates resentment. The hidden agenda behind this could also be to tap into the resources (read money) of richer schools.
 
VJB 449 said:
En daar was al baie *** besluite gewees!

Forced integration only creates resentment. The hidden agenda behind this could also be to tap into the resources (read money) of richer schools.
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You are probably right, but if this should ever happen and I receive a notice that my children have to move to another township school due to the integration, I will simply start with home tuition, probably get together with other parents in the same boat and we all can club in in paying a full-time teacher(s) to assist in home schooling from our premises. Then government can go f**k themselves!
 
If this is a similar system to the relationship between Claremont High School and Westerford in Cape Town, then I would definitely support it.
 
Will the township school parents suddenly start paying these higher school fees?* Will the parent whose kids have to travel further to a under resourced in a how safe area pay nothing? Stupid idea is really stupid.


*One hopes the department realises good schooling require lots of money.
 
Op's article tossed into Google Translate, was too lazy to fix the errors, but it's not bad:

Some urban schools in Gauteng to be a township school merge for "better integration between schools" and therefore a non-racial environment.

It is the pursuit of Panyaza Lesufi, MEC for Education in Gauteng, which has a technical team to see how an environment of "social cohesion" can be created.

Lesufi told Beeld that he would investigate the possibility of such a system - a first in the country - to introduce. He would have wanted such a joint * high school with a principal and governing functions.

"I have a technical team appointed within six months of feedback will give me.

"Based on their feedback, the draft will then be opened for public participation, and we will then decide on the way forward.

"My goal is that I want us to a non-racial atmosphere. I do not like the current state of affairs. That's the only way we will get rid of the stereo types * in our society and our children closer together will bring.

"The current school system in the province is old and should be changed. Our lives have passed each other.

"We owe it to the children of 1976 due to school together to go," said Lesufi.

He knows there might be opposition, but emphasized that "pupils should begin to know each other."

"This is a long term goal, but that is why it is being investigated."

Paul Colditz, chief executive of the Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas), said at first glance he does not think it will work.

He believes that a better plan would be to have two schools in partnership with each other to function.

"But you can not have two schools that are relatively far apart with a governing body and principal function.

"It would be better to have a partnership between two schools to create a well-functioning school and a poorly functioning school with other work.

"The whole philosophy of education that the community take responsibility for their school to be accepted.

"That's why most members of a governing body to be parents - parents who claim it's self should be to accept responsibility.

"Now you put two campuses whose communities are far apart and radical culture and values ​​may differ from each other.

"In one way or another will be the one hurt and the other priorities."

It sounds to him to a "ideologically driven" proposal.

Ted Townsend, spokesman for the South African Teachers' Union, said it's been tried elsewhere in the world, but failed.

Although the union a proposal or process support aimed at nation-building and the quality of the education system to promote such a process in the past had shown that it is
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SCHOOL INTEGRATION NOT THE ANSWER: UNION

Integrating township and urban schools will not promote social cohesion, the SA Teachers Union (SAOU) said on Tuesday.

"The process will create more problems within the education sector than it aims to solve and will possibly result in greater disruption and alienation," SAOU chief executive Chris Klopper said in a statement.

He was reacting to a report in Beeld newspaper on Tuesday that newly appointed Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi had appointed a team to investigate amalgamating schools from different areas to create social cohesion.

Klopper said there were many well-documented cases of failed attempts at amalgamation in international education research.

"It would be better for the MEC to focus on improving functionality in currently dysfunctional schools rather than to disrupt already well established centres of quality education delivery, thus disadvantaging learners from all racial groups across the board."


Source : Sapa /gq/tk/th/ks
Date : 17 Jun 2014 17:49
 
Nerfherder said:
Basically.... some state schools in Gauteng must merge with a Township school to have "better intergration between schools" and to have a non-racial country.
They fail to mention that every part of a town is a township.
Moreletapark is a township, mooikloof and woodhill as well.

I'd love to see what they mean and what schools in Gauteng they are talking about
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They fail to mention that every part of a town is a township.
Moreletapark is a township, mooikloof and woodhill as well.

OrbitalDawn said:
How do they want to 'merge' schools that are many kilometres apart?
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Funny how they want to force poor people to drve farther to schools.

Why can't they build more schools, train decent teachers and go to local schools and recruit new teachers in the area.
Pay teachers more. Funny how they howl at the mines but can't look after their own employees.

And what about the thing that you are supposed to place your children in schools within your own district? I know of parents that wanted to take their kids to school a but was told they do not live in the district and should go to school B.

This will not work and it has nothing to do with race.
 
Why force more kids into say randburg high when you can build another school closer to the poor kids?
The standards in schools are suppose to be the same, weather you are in jan branewyn park or in rosebank. A government school is suppose to be a government school.

And yes rich kids has access to more things because their parents pay for extra everything. Instead of trying to force kids to drive far to a richer school just give the poor schools grants to have access to extra math and all that. But I guess it will turn out like the school feeding schemes, a few will live in rosebank send their kids to private school and the rest will stay hungry.
I have friends with kids in a model c school, everything is extra.


Same issue with sports, invest the money in the kids rather than building a palace for a criminal.
How many kids could have had extra math classes with the money they stole for nkandla?

Sies man.
 
social engineering at it's finest, move the poor in with the rich and the rich will leave and just more schools will be ruined.
 
bgotapen said:
social engineering at it's finest, move the poor in with the rich and the rich will leave and just more schools will be ruined.
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More private schools coming to an area near you. Although, the middle class probably suffers the most here.

I'm all for letting the township guys getting the same quality facilities and teachers as everybody else, but merging two schools is not the answer. Trained and committed staff with adequate funding is a better solution (oh but that means government has to dish out some money and skip a couple of overseas trips and maybe fire one or two useless unneeded ministers).
 
"merging" governing bodies might actually be a sensible course of action to strengthen them but its the Schools Act where the problems lie. Far too many parent representatives and not enough skilled non-partisan people who actually have the interests of the school at heart with a proper course of continuity - IIRC SGBs only have a 3 year lifespan. If you can have a situation where there is a district council properly assembled that is the governing body for multiple schools with a principal at large and headmaster (vice-principal) that includes accountants and judicial officers and MPLs or MPs (between MPLs and MPs there are enough to go around) that does a proper governing function a lot of problems will be sorted out.

Look at the governing body of a University e.g
Rhodes:
Judge Jones served as the Chair of Council for 18 years. He said it had been an honour to Chair the University Council and that he was inordinately proud to have been able to contribute to the University and its Council.

Compare that sort of continuing to calibre to the petty nonsense that can destroy a school
 
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