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IT IS January 15, 2013, at 9.30am when my grandma sends me to Thubelihle High School (known as Bhora Bhora) in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, to collect my cousin’s progress report.
I get there and the teacher is not there yet and the secretary tells me to wait. As I’m sitting there, there are three pupils – from what I heard they were the matrics of 2012 – waiting to get their results.
One of their teachers, a woman, comes out of the staff room with a bubbly personality. She begins to ask each of the kids about their plans after matric. She then randomly tells them to NOT EVEN THINK about going to a FET college, specifically Port Elizabeth FET College and Midlands in Uitenhage, because those places are for "retards” and no one from those institutions ever succeed.
She continues to tell them she had done her research and those institutions take people from Grade 10, so those kids with their Grade 12 certificates will be sharing desks with those "retards”.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, coming from their own teacher. What exactly do those teachers tell those kids? Those kids even mentioned to her they haven’t registered yet at university as they were waiting for their results – it is already too late to go and register at any university and so an FET college might be another option, but the teacher tells them FETs are for retards!
I’m very concerned after hearing a teacher saying such poison to kids. Universities are overloaded and yet some teachers are poisoning kids’ minds about FET colleges.
I cant agree with the teacher in question but Iam a lecturer at an FET College , Learners who have passed matric with Bachelors are doing these Ncv courses . A student would start in Level 2 which is actually the equilence of grade 10.Really the Government need to come up with clear guidelines in this NCV programmes , you will never find a white child with matric doing the NCV, The teacher in question raised the issue in a wrong way but, really it is a very serious for us to debate as the Nation. When this NCV was brought in it was meant for those who did not pass matric.But because the model of funding is based on numbers , i guess that is why the colleges even register even those with Matric Bachelors. I think this is the huge challenge for Cde Blade , the money is wasted .
Report Abuse Author: bongza Date: 18 January 2013 9:23I cant agree with the teacher in question but Iam a lecturer at an FET College , Learners who have passed matric with Bachelors are doing these Ncv courses . A student would start in Level 2 which is actually the equilence of grade 10.Really the Government need to come up with clear guidelines in this NCV programmes , you will never find a white child with matric doing the NCV, The teacher in question raised the issue in a wrong way but, really it is a very serious for us to debate as the Nation. When this NCV was brought in it was meant for those who did not pass matric.But because the model of funding is based on numbers , i guess that is why the colleges even register even those with Matric Bachelors. I think this is the huge challenge for Cde Blade , the money is wasted .
Report Abuse Author: bongza Date: 18 January 2013 9:23I cant agree with the teacher in question but Iam a lecturer at an FET College , Learners who have passed matric with Bachelors are doing these Ncv courses . A student would start in Level 2 which is actually the equilence of grade 10.Really the Government need to come up with clear guidelines in this NCV programmes , you will never find a white child with matric doing the NCV, The teacher in question raised the issue in a wrong way but, really it is a very serious for us to debate as the Nation. When this NCV was brought in it was meant for those who did not pass matric.But because the model of funding is based on numbers , i guess that is why the colleges even register even those with Matric Bachelors. I think this is the huge challenge for Cde Blade , the money is wasted .
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