Uproar over matric rape question

[HideInLight]

Thoughtless idiot yes - paedophile, highly unlikely.

Actually since it's a teacher and taking into current events the likelihood is high...

 

[Fazda]

Actually since it's a teacher and taking into current events the likelihood is high...

Oh thanks!

I happen to have taught for 30 odd years, so therefore I am automatically a paedophile!!

God I hate it when people actually post utter cr@p like this!!

 

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The Department of Basic Education, however, stood by its decision to include the question, with its spokesman, Elijah Mhlanga, saying that a subject, like the rape of a 9-month-old baby, was “not new” to a Grade 12 pupil.

“By the time pupils are in matric, they have begun to be faced with the realities of adulthood, often beyond the security of their homes and the school system,” he said on Tuesday.

“They will, through media and cinema, have been exposed to many horrific images and reports,” said Mhlanga.

He's entirely correct and I am heartened to hear they are defending the question.

Not long after the exam finished, @kath_joubert tweeted: “Drama exam asking us how we’d rape a loaf of bread on stage, uhh #comeagain?”

Given the extract presented in the article Kath is clearly not the brightest of sparks.

A teacher at a government-run all-girls high school in Durban, who asked to remain anonymous, said it was “revolting”.

Obviously not a real a student of drama this teacher.

She knew of pupils at her school who had been sexually abused.

Irrelevant to the matter of drama. One of the things they teach in drama is using the painful experiences of your life, reliving them internally, to recreate it for an audience.

“How dare they (the department) make them (the pupils) confront something so horrific and graphic in an exam situation,” she said.

That's drama dear. She should check it out sometime.

The national head of the Governing Body Foundation, Tim Gordon, said the exam had been written by a diverse group of pupils and the question was “insensitive”.

Another twit that doesn't understand the nature of drama and acting.

It could be argued that it was an acceptable question to be asked of university students, he said.

So it is horribly traumatising now, but would be fine next February?

“They (pupils) are young adults, but some matric pupils are only 17,” he said.

In other words they're all young adults.

The deputy chief executive of Gender Links, Kubi Rama, said she had read the question “with horror”.

She called for teachers to be trained to understand the causes and effects of gender violence and to understand gender.

“The insensitivity of the question raises alarm bells about the examiner’s attitudes and beliefs,” she said. “How can we have someone so gender-blind teaching young people?”

Another with a lack of understanding of the subject. It's drama darling.

 

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I'm sure that whoever wrote that question is an actual pedofile.

If you knew anything about acting and drama you could not make this comment.

Garson, there is a million other questions that could have replaced this question, without offending anyone at all!

You clearly have no grasp of the drama process. It's not about prancing around in costumes and make-up. It's hard and involves confronting scary and disturbing things.

That's an interesting question and one I cannot answer. However, if we're going down the route of don't ask any questions that might offend someone then it wouldn't be much of a drama or art paper.

You can't.

 

[JerryMungo]

You clearly have no grasp of the drama process. It's not about prancing around in costumes and make-up. It's hard and involves confronting scary and disturbing things.

That's neither here nor there. The question was poor quality and not very well related to the drama.

 

[HideInLight]

Oh thanks!

I happen to have taught for 30 odd years, so therefore I am automatically a paedophile!!

God I hate it when people actually post utter cr@p like this!!

Teachers that asks questions like this, or who feed their students cookies, it might be a good idea to become somewhat suspicious. It's better than doing nothing.

 

[HideInLight]

That's neither here nor there. The question was poor quality and not very well related to the drama.

Are people that decentralized to everything else that drama has to go down to this low of a level just to get feedback from the audience?

 

[JerryMungo]

Are people that decentralized to everything else that drama has to go down to this low of a level just to get feedback from the audience?

Agree, it's like 'art'. Sometimes it's nothing but an excuse to be crass or weird.

 

[Fazda]

Teachers that asks questions like this, or who feed their students cookies, it might be a good idea to become somewhat suspicious. It's better than doing nothing.

Great - and end up in jail for the rest of your life like this tosser in the UK!http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...ling-man-he-mistakenly-thought-was-paedophile

 

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