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North Cape teachers FORCED to pass ALL pupils

Order to teachers:No learner should perform with a score of below 60% … any candidate must be allowed to write, rewrite and rewrite the assessment tasks until such learner achieves the minimum 60% passrate…’  March 25 2012 order to schools by G.T. Pharasi, North Cape Dept of Education…

May 4 2012 – Kimberley, North Cape, South Africa" - ‘North Cape Teacher' writes: “Below are scans of faxes that went out to Northern Cape schools (both primary and secondary schools) on 25 April 2012. It orders us to constantly assess, re-assess and assess again pupils who score below 60% passrates – ordering us to continue assessing such pupils, even severely mentally-disabled pupils who often cannot read or write, until they ‘achieve the minimum 60% passrate…’ the teacher noted in a letter to Censorbugbear-Reports. This order goes a long way towards explaining the 544 SA schools which had achieved ‘100% or even higher’ (!) passrates  last year… official SA govt matriculation pass rates for 2011 

NORTHCAPE SCHOOLS MUST PASS ALL PUPILS MAY42012 Above: Order from North Cape Education Dept instructs teachers to send the Dept their monthly assessments of all the pupils and to keep assessing, reassassing and assessing under-achieving pupils again  and again (outside normal school hours) until those pupils 'achieve the minimum required 60% passrates”. .. Even severely mentally handicapped pupils who often cannot ever be taught to read must ‘undertake these assessments until they pass…’   (the faxes are reproduced in larger size in the documents below).                                                                                                                     --------
Pathetic attempt by ANC-govt to fake improvements in pass-rates:

Comments the teacher about the above document: “To me personally, this seems like just another pathetic attempt by the ANC government to fake improved pass rates, due to this order that from now on every student must get 60% passrates, or must take an assessment test again and again and again until he does… 

FROM NOW ON EVERY STUDENT MUST GET 60% (PASS RATES) OR MUST TAKE AN ASSESSMENT TEST AGAIN AND AGAIN TILL HE DOES….

Writes the teacher: ‘to me this seems like trying to beat blood from a stone. This order boils down to this: Formerly white schools (model C schools) will have to try and try to help their “lesser talented” students pass until they finally give up and just give them that 60% mentioned in the document attached. “Black” public schools will very likely simply give the pupils the 60% that they need from the get-go.

‘ Even children with the most serious mental disabilities (LSEN-children) must get 60% pass rates ’

“To further ridicule this policy, I have to mention that the ruling African National Congress' party 's Dept. of Education has also adopted the policy of “inclusive learning” years ago.

This forces schools to accommodate even those children with often very serious mental disabilities to enter mainstream public schools. Most of the former schools that were able to accommodate these students with specialised teachers and training, were however shut down, due “a lack of funding”  and their specialised teachers sacked. LSEN-funding dropped

“Most South African  teachers do NOT have the specialist training to accompany and try to educate these “LSEN” (Learners with special education needs) children.

“While the LSEN pupils are allowed to progress at their own pace, they now will also have to be assessed on the same scale as normal pupils. Thus a LSEN-child in grade 3 which cannot even spell its own name, will now be required to achieve 60% passrates – and the teachers will have to assess and reassess them over and over again until they actually receive that score…

I n other words --  reactions to this will be inevitable.  This order applies to oral assessment tasks as well as all practical assessment tasks.

Personally I see this as yet another example of how the ANC is dumbing down the South African population and faking pass-rates.
This is indeed identical to their faking the annual crime-statistics in South Africa,’ the teacher concludes.

(Comment by editor: obviously it was too unsafe to publish the teacher’s name: I will not divulge it.)

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The Dept of Education ‘s official 2011 matriculation passrates:  EDUCATION MANIPULATED PASS RATES POLITICS INSTEAD OF EDUCATION SOUTH AFRICA A teacher provided this documented proof (below) showing that the above official matriculation results are being manipulated by the ANC-regime: by forcing teachers to pass even their most mentally-challenged pupils at minimum 60% passrate: and to keep on testing, re-testing and testing their under-achieving pupils until those children DO achieve their 60% minimum requirements…  moreover, the teachers have to do this ‘re-assessing’ outside normal school-hours, in their own free time: and must submit their assessments each month to the education department: http://www.naptosa.org.za/downloads/NSC_Stats_2011.pdf

EDUCATION NORTH CAPE ORDER TO ASSESS PUPILS TO MINIMUM LEVELS INCLUDING RETARDED 26MAR2012 EDUCATION NOCAPE PAGE 2 MINIMUM ASSESSMENTS EVEN FOR RETARDEDMARCH2012 ORDER                                                                                                                          ---------------

studies and reports of LSEN pupils from specialist school forced into mainstream SA education: