They passed, but can't read

JustAsk said:
And right there where you assume the white person is automatically qualified,your argument fall flat.
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That is not what I said.

What I said is that if you as a white male with a degree and 10 years of experience applies for a position and the person after you is a black male with only 1 year of experience with no qualification, he will likely be chosen above you in order for the company to ensure it applies to AA laws and BEE certification.

It is not that a white male 'automatically qualifies', it is just that there are laws that dictate what you employee force should look like.
 
House said:
That is not what I said.

What I said is that if you as a white male with a degree and 10 years of experience applies for a position and the person after you is a black male with only 1 year of experience with no qualification, he will likely be chosen above you in order for the company to ensure it applies to AA laws and BEE certification.

It is not that a white male 'automatically qualifies', it is just that there are laws that dictate what you employee force should look like.
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Kinda in the same predicament. As a coloured male, there is an African lady here with a lower qualification than me, has less work experience than me and she is earning approx 100k more than me. She a Proj Man and I'm a dev.
 
CamiKaze said:
So to the forumites with kids, what are you guys doing to better things at home? are you spending time with your children and teaching them important things and be better than the 30%? or are you just letting the school lead them on into a world of "idiocracy"?
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It is a big misconception that the educational standards are poor in just public schools. I had the same issue with my son in a private school (I guess being European and having a different view on educational standards made matters worse as according to the principal my expectations of achieving passmarks higher than 60% were unreasonable as 70% is the school average) and for two years (grade 6/7) I had to substitute with a private tutor. With grade 8 (since the wheels completely came off last year) I am actually moving him into a boarding school to ensure that he gets a good balance of schooling and extra murals.

TBH if both parents work and you only get home at 5 or 6pm it is pretty pointless trying to help your child with school-work - the kid is poked by then. I can sympathise with working parents struggling to get their kids through school and not having sufficient time - but to be honest, if you pay a private school in excess of 6K/pm and the teachers could not be bothered to mark tests correctly or follow up on homework, who else is to blame other than the school?

Your child spends in excess of 7 hours per day at the school under the supervision of educators who have nothing else to do, than getting kids through the curriculum and make them succeed. I lost it last year, when the private school was perfectly happy that my kid had a pass-mark of 40% in english/math and was highly concerned about him failing Zulu and Art - srsly?

Bottom line is that level of education is generally deteriorating - irrespective of the type of school. It makes matters just worse, if schools and the department of education try to sugarcoat the actual problem.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
I can sympathise with working parents struggling to get their kids through school and not having sufficient time - but to be honest, if you pay a private school in excess of 6K/pm and the teachers could not be bothered to mark tests correctly or follow up on homework, who else is to blame other than the school?

Your child spends in excess of 7 hours per day at the school under the supervision of educators who have nothing else to do, than getting kids through the curriculum and make them succeed. I lost it last year, when the private school was perfectly happy that my kid had a pass-mark of 40% in english/math and was highly concerned about him failing Zulu and Art - srsly?

Bottom line is that level of education is generally deteriorating - irrespective of the type of school. It makes matters just worse, if schools and the department of education try to sugarcoat the actual problem.
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I fully agree with this.
The school has responsibility to nurture your child's future by ensuring they get the highest standard of education possible.
If they just want your money with no effort then they are not a worthy school imo.
My son's school put's in the extra effort to ensure each student is working to their full potential.
 
CamiKaze said:
So to the forumites with kids, what are you guys doing to better things at home? are you spending time with your children and teaching them important things and be better than the 30%? or are you just letting the school lead them on into a world of "idiocracy"?
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I don't have to do much because even my kids get 40%, that still puts them in the top 10%
 
CamiKaze said:
So to the forumites with kids, what are you guys doing to better things at home? are you spending time with your children and teaching them important things and be better than the 30%? or are you just letting the school lead them on into a world of "idiocracy"?
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My kids are all grown up now so thankfully I don't have to deal with this s--- anymore, but I applied a few principles in trying to prepare them, I left it up to the school to teach them whatever was necessary to pass at the end of the year, I never interfered in their social struggles at school other than suggestion on how to cope with difficult situations, I refused to do any homework/assignments etc., I insisted on all meals at the table with no TV or phone distractions, and I always encouraged them to first try and find a solution to a problem before running to my wife and I.
The result is that they ended up as adults that can cope with most of the situations that life throws at them, and the tools to cope with the hard ones. It is the schools responsibility to give them an academic qualification and my job as a parent to give them a life qualification.
 
Slootvreter said:
Sweet Jesus, my eyes hurt now. Imagine all the effort to type like that. Or perhaps this prick has an app that takes out allmost all the vowels :D
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He maybe deleted every word in his SwiftKey and saved his own words...
 
I get stuff like this all the time - drives me nuts:

Dear Mr,Mrs/Sir

My name is Xxxx Xxxx , I'm currently pursuing my studies in computer enginering at XXX, doing my third year
I would like to know if there is internship position in software development or related fields

Here is attached my resume , cover letter and my academic report


Looking forward for hear from you
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How do you get as far as 3rd year anything and not be able to draft a simple cover letter without screwing up the punctuation and grammar, not to mention the attached documents referring to gems such as "visual basics dotnets" and "SQl services"?

Sure, we want someone who hasn't mastered the full stop to work on complicated software. If you can't be bothered to get your covering letter on your CV right, how sloppy is your code going to be?
 
This is not a new thing. I deal with many, supposedly educated, people who cannot compose a proper email.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
It is a big misconception that the educational standards are poor in just public schools. I had the same issue with my son in a private school (I guess being European and having a different view on educational standards made matters worse as according to the principal my expectations of achieving passmarks higher than 60% were unreasonable as 70% is the school average) and for two years (grade 6/7) I had to substitute with a private tutor. With grade 8 (since the wheels completely came off last year) I am actually moving him into a boarding school to ensure that he gets a good balance of schooling and extra murals.

TBH if both parents work and you only get home at 5 or 6pm it is pretty pointless trying to help your child with school-work - the kid is poked by then. I can sympathise with working parents struggling to get their kids through school and not having sufficient time - but to be honest, if you pay a private school in excess of 6K/pm and the teachers could not be bothered to mark tests correctly or follow up on homework, who else is to blame other than the school?

Your child spends in excess of 7 hours per day at the school under the supervision of educators who have nothing else to do, than getting kids through the curriculum and make them succeed. I lost it last year, when the private school was perfectly happy that my kid had a pass-mark of 40% in english/math and was highly concerned about him failing Zulu and Art - srsly?

Bottom line is that level of education is generally deteriorating - irrespective of the type of school. It makes matters just worse, if schools and the department of education try to sugarcoat the actual problem.
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wow I just read some of those comments on https://www.facebook.com/supersport and its shocking...

I'm currently in the market for hiring another employee, expanding my department to 7 people :)

My personal fav... ? I got a CV with a selfie and his twitter account on the front page

I tore it up and threw it in the bin
 
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