Tuesday, 6 March 2018

Disadvantaged schools in townships

It is so sad to be a learner in township high schools in nowadays. Learners are taught almost all of their subjects in their mother tongue, they are lucky only if the teacher does not share a mother tongue with them, as a result they are not familiar with English and that is very unfortunate because when they get to University they are expected to be fluent in English. When these learners get in University they start to develop negative attitude towards other students whom are fluent in English, they start to judge them and call them names.

There are no computer related subjects and computer skills are very important as Universities are using E-Learning because of advanced technology in our country.

Most high schools are said to be school fees FREE but you will find that learners are charged money every month end as if they are paying school fees. Some learners depend on the social grant and  you will find that half of their money goes to school to pay for broken windows, typek white papers or security guard, why can't the government provide these public schools with all that?

Teachers are facing so much problems at township high schools today as learners go to school with empty stomach and struggle to focus during the first periods, there are many learners in a classroom as a result it is hard for a teacher to assist each learner.The environment around school is not friendly, sometimes you would find that a child was stabbed during school break time or even teaching time.
Drug dealers are wondering in streets waiting for the school break time to sell drugs to learners.
What needs to be done to change the lives of these children?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=108&v=rbYu9x0mOks
watch to see for yourself.





4 comments:

  1. What can we do to help our brothers and sisters?

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  2. ..but in most cases disadvantage schools tend to produce big professionals

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  3. Yes but some have so much drop outs.

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  4. i think we should remember our little ones when we make it in life.

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