Ok, so perhaps I have lost the plot - but isn't a school about giving an education to children? How does this now become "the end results are absolutely nothing"? If the school is not performing, perhaps they should be looking at the principal and/or the staff. Children need to be excited about learning, motivated to do well and assisted, if conditions at the home front are not as they perhaps should be. Close them down indeed - what will happen to those children. Oh never mind, they will just take to the streets, where they will learn 'how to' increase crime and perhaps even become another statistic!
Gauteng facing school closure shock
January 07 2007 at 04:03PM
The Gauteng department of education has threatened to close down 200 badly performing schools, the SABC reported. Spokesperson for the department Panyaza Lesufi said the department has given principals until the end of January to present plans to turn their schools around. However, he says Education MEC Angie Motshekga was convinced that the only solution was to close the schools down." They are part of what Education Minister calls non-functional schools. "So in Gauteng we have given them until January 30 to tell us what they will do to turn around the situation," he said. "But the MEC has reached a stage where she believes that these schools are just absorbing money and resources of the state, but the end results are absolutely nothing."
Lesufi also said the department could not justify the amount of money invested in those schools. "If we compare the output that we receive, we believe we have no choice but to close down the schools." - Sapa
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