Should the matric results be published?

[backstreetboy]

No school is a joke anyway. Doesn't prepare you for the real world in any way whatsoever.

 

[martinvictor]

Should the Department of Basic Education publish matric results as before or were they right in not doing so, ostensibly due to POPIA concerns?

I voted no. Not for privacy concerns, but the reality is, matric exams are the worst stress most kids will have experienced in their lives. So much riding on them, so much pressure, that if they've underperformed the perception of their failure being perceived as "public" could just be too much to bear.

 

[martinvictor]

I voted no. Not for privacy concerns, but the reality is, matric exams are the worst stress most kids will have experienced in their lives. So much riding on them, so much pressure, that if they've underperformed the perception of their failure being perceived as "public" could just be too much to bear.

I agree. There is to much hype surrounding matric.
Not publishing the results will remove some of the hype and stress.

 

[Dan C]

Don't do matric !!

Considering how many kids end up killings themselves because of these marks being public, that’s another reason it shouldn’t be public.

Simply just do not do matric and you will survive.

 

[josh4]

Yes, there are no names in the list, it is all exam numbers and results, no infringement at all. Unless you have the database it is meaningless.

I would agree but within a grade it is not hard to guess someone's student number, they are organized by surnames and schools and you sit in the order to write exams. Particularly in a smaller school you'd be able to work out who was who.

In my year one student got a Higher certificate and we could all work out who it was

 

[josh4]

Not necessary in this tech age. Make them available online for access only by a student. They already do that with those SMS service, WhatsApp and other online avenues just maybe not free but the department should make it free. This newspaper thing puts undue pressure on the matriculants. They have nosy neighbours and what not buying the things to see if others passed or failed instead of worrying about their own failing spawn.

I agree, send everyone's results via SMS. There is no advantage to putting the results in the newspaper apart from benefitting the newspapers themselves

 

[pinball wizard]

So, it's good that it was published, yeah? Otherwise the cANCer would just lie in some headline and no one would actually dig into the facts.

 

[alloytoo]

Yes.

 

[TheMark]

Yes. they should publish the results

 

[Brado305]

The world has gone soft with all this political correctness putting everyone in a soft bubble to handle them with care