Sort out our Education System in South Africa
- von: A mother of an SA Teacher
- empfänger: All South Africans
It is time our government focused on the basics in our country like education. Our schools need painting & repair and the children need desks, chairs and books.
Wake up! Our teachers are leaving the profession because they cannot live on the salaries they earn. Four years at University and 12 years experience and a single person cannot live on the salary they receive. The Government promised an increase two years ago and where is it? Put your money where your mouth is ANC.
Dedicated teachers, who see their work as a way to make this country a better place to live and a way to give children a better future, are leaving the profession. Their skills are being better paid for in both private sector, and in some cases, overseas.
What is our government doing? We hear about them spending money on legal fees for government employees or drunk politicians, etc! If they want to do the crime they need to pay the price themselves and not use South Africa's taxpayers' money to cover their personal costs.
Put pride back into our country by starting with cleaning our schools. This simple action will teach our children the basics of cleanliness. Some schools are so unhygienic at the moment with filth everywhere and ablutions totally unacceptable. Even the Teachers Training Colleges need cleaning, painting and repair.
Install cameras to enable teaching staff to monitor and eliminate the problem of drinking on school grounds.
Who will listen and respond to this plea? Or am I just sending this message out into space?
Wake up! Our teachers are leaving the profession because they cannot live on the salaries they earn. Four years at University and 12 years experience and a single person cannot live on the salary they receive. The Government promised an increase two years ago and where is it? Put your money where your mouth is ANC.
Dedicated teachers, who see their work as a way to make this country a better place to live and a way to give children a better future, are leaving the profession. Their skills are being better paid for in both private sector, and in some cases, overseas.
What is our government doing? We hear about them spending money on legal fees for government employees or drunk politicians, etc! If they want to do the crime they need to pay the price themselves and not use South Africa's taxpayers' money to cover their personal costs.
Put pride back into our country by starting with cleaning our schools. This simple action will teach our children the basics of cleanliness. Some schools are so unhygienic at the moment with filth everywhere and ablutions totally unacceptable. Even the Teachers Training Colleges need cleaning, painting and repair.
Install cameras to enable teaching staff to monitor and eliminate the problem of drinking on school grounds.
Who will listen and respond to this plea? Or am I just sending this message out into space?
My heart breaks at the terrible conditions our children and teachers face each day.
I have been to an Orange Farm School where the only beautiful thing is a mural on the wall outside one of the blocks. Ceilings falling down, 6 desks in a class. Filthy floors which have not seen the sight of a scrubbing brush in ages.
Mamelodi a privately funded education centre had beautifully clean ablutions but horrifically dirty classrooms.
An Atteridgeville Teachers Training College has 2 toilets with seats out of 8. Leaking pipes with water all over the floor and this too has not been scrubbed in ages.
At Soweto a College has 1 Toilet seat out of 4 with water also leaking all over the floor. Dirty basins and no soap or paper is of course the norm in all these places.
My daughter a teacher cleans her own classroom when she gets a chance as the department has seen fit to give teachers an enormous amount of extra work which does not assist the children but takes more time from the teachers.
To many of the children I have met this is a home from home for them. A safe haven from the things that hurt them. Their teachers become mothers who for some are the only ones who show them caring and take the time to listen to them and try and understand them.
Unfortunately I see these schools as breeding grounds for disease. Human excrement wiped on walls can only lead to disease. Urine mixed with leaking water from the back of toilets will do the same.
I am not a person who believes that a little dirt does no hurt but I do believe we are breeding a society that will be doomed through neglect.
Neglect to be hygienic and to feel they are worthy of clean schools, neglect because they are just pushed up year after year with no one caring whether they do actually know and understand the subjects (in these instances teachers do not even have to prove their worth and that they are truly teaching the children anything), neglect because their government does not think they are worthy of better.
Come on people! Our children are our future and are precious and deserve better! I have spent time with some awesome children who want a cleaner school but do not have the voice to ask for it.
Speak up and let our voices be heard for a better education - a truly earned one, better schools, better salaries for our teachers to show we appreciate what they are doing for our children and country.
Are you with me?
Petition unterzeichnenPetition unterzeichnenI have been to an Orange Farm School where the only beautiful thing is a mural on the wall outside one of the blocks. Ceilings falling down, 6 desks in a class. Filthy floors which have not seen the sight of a scrubbing brush in ages.
Mamelodi a privately funded education centre had beautifully clean ablutions but horrifically dirty classrooms.
An Atteridgeville Teachers Training College has 2 toilets with seats out of 8. Leaking pipes with water all over the floor and this too has not been scrubbed in ages.
At Soweto a College has 1 Toilet seat out of 4 with water also leaking all over the floor. Dirty basins and no soap or paper is of course the norm in all these places.
My daughter a teacher cleans her own classroom when she gets a chance as the department has seen fit to give teachers an enormous amount of extra work which does not assist the children but takes more time from the teachers.
To many of the children I have met this is a home from home for them. A safe haven from the things that hurt them. Their teachers become mothers who for some are the only ones who show them caring and take the time to listen to them and try and understand them.
Unfortunately I see these schools as breeding grounds for disease. Human excrement wiped on walls can only lead to disease. Urine mixed with leaking water from the back of toilets will do the same.
I am not a person who believes that a little dirt does no hurt but I do believe we are breeding a society that will be doomed through neglect.
Neglect to be hygienic and to feel they are worthy of clean schools, neglect because they are just pushed up year after year with no one caring whether they do actually know and understand the subjects (in these instances teachers do not even have to prove their worth and that they are truly teaching the children anything), neglect because their government does not think they are worthy of better.
Come on people! Our children are our future and are precious and deserve better! I have spent time with some awesome children who want a cleaner school but do not have the voice to ask for it.
Speak up and let our voices be heard for a better education - a truly earned one, better schools, better salaries for our teachers to show we appreciate what they are doing for our children and country.
Are you with me?
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