on the education crisis in south africa today
Education - some really bizarre updates!
It has suddenly dawned on me that the ANC government is trying to do as much as possible without white help, while at the same time maintaining a white facade e.g. Ina Cronje (Education)
Here are some example of really bizarre strategies:
1. The freezing of teacher salaries in 1997 until last year when there were all those teacher strikes and now they come up with some sort of inadequate compromise to try and ‘compensate’ for 10 years of progressive UNDERPAYMENT. Some teachers who took the voluntary severance packages (enormous payouts) in 1997 simply came back into the education system via the governing bodies. New teachers coming into the education system are being paid what teachers with 10 years experience are currently earning.
2. The removal of SPORTS teaches from schools. There are no teachers in schools specifically employed to handle spprt in the schools. (Except of course the very rich schools who realised the importance of sport and employed their own specialist sports coaches) Teachers, who have a normal teaching load, have been expected to become sports coaches and administer the sport in the school. The latter alone, is a full time job. Now they are complaining that there has not been enough redress in terms of transformation in sport!@!!!
3. They are currently introducing sports coaches into schools on a part time basis paying them R1,500 per month (I kid you not) to come into the schools with R40000 worth of equipment to train educators in the sporting codes. This extra training will not impact on teachers salaries.
4. There are no longer going to be specialist schools catering for the disabled. i.e at Fulton which is a school for the deaf will in future be expected to take in cerebal palsy, blind, or any disabled person. i.e. all disabled people are being seen as equal. I kid you not@!! Teachers currently in disabled schools will be given 3 three-day workshops in the holidays to train them to deal with all disabled learners. I kid you not.
Who are these idiots in the education department that come up with these clever sentences (my term for their policy for education) and then expect every else to make it work?
At the moment there is a deathly hush regarding the current salary negotiations.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Achimota marimba band is currently trying to set up a music training programme in Orange Farm township, south of Joburg. There is no facilities or budget for arts and culture in township schools, they report. Guess art is not important in today’s SA education either ..
June 8th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
derek, this weird.. orange farm is like a coupla k’s from where me’m based.. do you have any names/contact details, I was/am completely unawares re this. Please shout yay or yonder. Medotcom
June 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
HI Mick. Please write to me on psychaderek@yahoo.co.in
sharp
Derek