The Minister once said that it is difficult to pass matric now than during apartheid. Can somebody please Help me to understand the meaning of her statement? . :-( I refuse to celebrate this 24% increase in the matric pass rate. Sorry, i am not going to be excited because of this so-called progressive development..Struu, Even if we had a 100% pass rate I still would not celebrate. Having completed my matric years ago, I can tell you now that there is absolutely nothing to passing matric. I Mean you could even fail one subject and still pass matric. Even an exemption means nothing these days, because all one needs to get it is 40% for 3 subjects including the Home Language and 30% in the remainder of the 4 subjects. So basically, this is what gets you an exemption: Sepedi /Tswana Fal(First Additional Language) - 45% (3 points) English second Additional Language - 40 % ( points) Life Orientation - 55% (2 points) Mathematics Literacy - 35% (2 points) Economics - 42% (3 points) History - 40% (3 points) Geography - 50% (4 points) TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS:19 points If you have these pathetic marks, you have an exemption, or what is now known as Entrance to a Bachelor Degree. Now the problem is that in university, these marks will not even be entertained. At Rhodes University, for example, one needs 40 points to qualify for entry. That means you must have at least get 4 B symbols, 2 C symbols and an A symbol. Sadly, a great majority of students, even if they do pass with an exemption, do not get sufficient points to qualify to be in most universities. This then necessitates that they re-write their matric to improve their symbols, or they settle for FETs and institutions that require less points. Even more tragic is that most of these are Black students from working- class backgrounds, Black students from rural areas, BLACK STUDENTS! A government that lowers the pass mark while universities enjoy institutional autonomy and can thus dictate who gets in and who doesnt, does not deserve our applause. This government that decided that 50% pass rate is too high and lowered it to 30% cannot be celebrated. I refuse to celebrate the entrenching of functional illiteracy. I refuse to celebrate the decay that is our education, which serves as a vehicle that drives the segregation of Black students from universities and in that way, preserving the legacy of inequality that we are supposed to be working to annihilate. So i am celebrating nothing. I do not celebrate quantity when the quality is lugubrious! No ways.... Ae, ere ke no didimala..... :-( #Driver, ge o fologa ka jika.... Kneilwe.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:47:08 +0000
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