Gauteng education MEC is trying to merge better resourced (read - TopicsExpress



          

Gauteng education MEC is trying to merge better resourced (read achieving) schools with their poorer (read worse performing) schools. Ostensibly, the idea is to enable poor children to access needed equipment and thereby society will eventually achieve better education outcomes. But, comrade, this sounds like a bad populist decision. In the first place, poor performance in black schools is the output of poor discipline among teachers and pupils. SADTU has been opposing the introduction of a performance management system - which was introduced across government in 2000. They are his friends. In contrast, public schools and independent schools which have good results implement proper human resource management practices such as disciplinary, planning, reporting, monitoring, appraisal and reward systems. Schools learn from each other voluntarily not by executive decree. Take the example of Mbilwi school in Venda and Onkgopotse Tiro in NW under Teach Kgonothi. They came together on their own to share notes and are performing well. Onkgopotse Tiro went to Mbilwi for advise and Mbilwi obliged. Speak of cross-pollination. A merger is not only mixing pupils and teachers. It is bringing two cultures together - diligence and poor discipline, laizzes faire leadership and goal oriented leadership. I suspect the MEC doesnt appreciate that bad apples have more power to spoil the healthy ones. Bad manners, corruption and indolent behaviour have a way of spoling good behaviour. Sadtu is bad news for any school community. The union is the reason that black middle class parents vote with their feet against public schools. They are driving the growth of the independent school industry. The MEC must attend to the rot in union run schools instead of seeking to transfer the problem to other schools. It is disingenuous and dishonest. It is going to fail. He should just refer to the failed merger of universities to see why a political decree is not always successful.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:09:54 +0000

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