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[–] 18981335? ago 

Since 1994 there has been some progress. There is no basis to the notion that education is worse than under apartheid, notes Mr Spaull. Piecing together evidence from various test data, he reckons children today are roughly two years ahead of where they would have been before 1994. Yet in recent years progress is “stalling”, he says. South Africa ranks bottom or near-bottom when countries are ranked by their pupils’ scores in comparable international tests. Nearly 80% of children in grade four (9- or 10-year-olds) cannot read and understand sentences in any language; 61% of pupils a year older cannot add or subtract whole numbers.

Small wonder then that, of the 100 pupils who begin a school year, just 50-60 can be expected to take the end-of-school "matriculation" exam, with 40-50 passing, and only six going on to complete university. All of this has a big impact on a labour market that offers a premium for skilled labour. The jobless rate for people with a high-school certificate (28%) is more than quadruple that for university graduates.

The quality of teaching is a major obstacle to better education. Nearly four in five maths teachers cannot do the sums expected of their 12- or 13-year-old pupils. Many of these teachers were themselves educated under apartheid. Nevertheless the lack of accountability for poor performance has been the responsibility of ANC governments. It is all but impossible to fire a teacher in South Africa. Even when school leaders are suspected of sexual harassment of pupils they are more likely to be moved to a different school than prosecuted.

The problems of South African schools are not for a lack of money. Public spending on education is more than 6% of GDP, a higher share than the average in the OECD club of mostly rich countries. Spending is also higher than in other African countries with better results, such as Kenya. The tolerance of failure, as well as the relatively lavish spending on salaries, is largely a result of the power of teaching unions. The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) is one of the largest unions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the federation that forms part of the “tripartite alliance” with the ANC, along with the South African Communist Party. SADTU’s political influence means it can get away with stunning levels of mediocrity and corruption.

Its shamefulness was outlined in a report for the government in 2016. Written by John Volmink, it documented widespread fraud and corruption in the school system, such as the sale of jobs for cash or cows. It also found that SADTU was in “de facto control” of the education departments in six of the nine provinces in the country, concluding that “it is not improbable to say that schooling throughout South Africa is run by SADTU”.

Those who can afford to extricate their children from this mess are doing so. Low-cost private schools are increasingly popular. Parents are showing similar preferences for the private over the public as they do in other sectors. In 1997 the number of private security guards and policemen was the same. Today there are three times more private guards than police. No one who can afford private health care relies on the public system.

Yet, given the state of the South African economy, there is a limit to the number of people who can afford to go private. The future of the poorest pupils depends on government policy. Mr Ramaphosa has made some promising suggestions, for example saying that he will embrace an intensive evidence-based reading programme championed by Mr Spaull. That would be a great start. But ultimately a better education system requires the president to take on the unions. Only then will teachers spend more time teaching children than looking out for their own interests.

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Goddamn niggers are fucking pathetic. Wjhen will they learn?

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[–] 18981355? ago 

Goddamn niggers are fucking pathetic. Wjhen will they learn?

My guess is, never

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[–] 18982821? ago 

Hmm I have a hard time believing that close to 100% of pavement apes or other subhumans in the US qualify as 'literate' (what would the standard of measurement be in that scenario). Without emojis on Twitturd and other social media they wouldn't be able to communicate at all.

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[–] 18993429? ago 

>>13349900

in recent years progress is “stalling”

Nignogs not performing up to white man standards. You know what that means!

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[–] 18981336? ago 

can't understand any language

How is that even possible?

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[–] 18981337? ago 

Ask a nigger.

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[–] 18988644? ago 

implying a nigger can form a coherent thought

You must be new here.

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[–] 18981338? ago 

It’s saying they can’t read and understand any language. Not speak.

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[–] 18986651? ago 

It’s saying they can’t read and understand any language. Not speak.

Now ask any anthropologist 101 professor how many nigger tribes have ever developed written language in all of non-nigger's recorded history.

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[–] 18981357? ago 

It's a poor way of describing that they are still completely illiterate.

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[–] 18986673? ago 

Da wyte man be takin all da knowledge for himself. dat why he seem so smart. he take the knowledge of 2, 3, 4, maybe a million people. kyll white man eat brain and reclaim the education.

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[–] 19012186? ago 

We stold dey ritn n neva geyv it back yo

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[–] 18981341? ago 

It’s funny the article doesn’t mention what the literacy rates among the same black age group was under white rule. If the problem is whitey’s fault due to historical injustices, why does a kid born 15 years after the end of white rule have worse outcomes than a kid who lived during white rule?

HMMMM

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[–] 18981361? ago 

15 years after the end of white rule

25* - they are a full generation off the leash and look how they fare

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[–] 18988618? ago 

No, a 10 year old kid today was born 15 years after.

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[–] 18981343? ago 

Whatever the niggers do there whites will be back to colonize it again once the niggers chase off the whites, collapse the economy, starve and then die off.

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[–] 18981345? ago 

Problem is they are trapping whites by denying documentation necessary to leave.

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[–] 18988621? ago 

Could you give me a link on that?

Not calling you a liar,, would like to have evidence of that for my own arguments.

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[–] 18981346? ago 

More than likely Asians will colonize it as Whites are currently committing suicide. There's literally zero reason to be optimistic about our prospects.

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[–] 18981351? ago 

As long as there's a select few to infiltrate it, we could have a country up and running. Elon musk was a white south african, after all. Then again, this is just LARP tier ideas, so I'll put that shit on hold.

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[–] 18981350? ago 

I'd love for a gene-specific plague to hit SA and kill all the niggers there. All the whites who left SA could come back and start rebuilding cities like Johannesburg. It could easily become one of the best countries on earth to live.

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[–] 18988632? ago 

Just a dream, anon. That's impossible. Whatever kills them will kill you.

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[–] 18982824? ago 

I just don't understand why the Whites aren't forming militia strongholds. I mean they could easily weather what the chimps throw at them if they have years to dig in.

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[–] 18981352? ago 

The economist forgot to add "And this better than living under the Apartheid, here's why."

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[–] 18981363? ago 

The economist forgot to add "And this better than living under the Apartheid, here's why."

No, you read about as much as these little niggers can

Apartheid still casts a shadow over education. Non-whites were deliberately given poor schooling, lest they get uppity or, worse, skilled. In 1994 per-pupil spending was 1.5 to 5 times higher for white pupils, depending on the location of the school. Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, said blacks should be educated enough only to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water”.

Since 1994 there has been some progress. There is no basis to the notion that education is worse than under apartheid, notes Mr Spaull. Piecing together evidence from various test data, he reckons children today are roughly two years ahead of where they would have been before 1994. Yet in recent years progress is “stalling”, he says.

>>13349922

I'd love for a gene-specific plague to hit SA and kill all the niggers there

>>13349905

Whatever the niggers do there whites will be back to colonize it again once the niggers chase off the whites, collapse the economy, starve and then die off.

This is extremely naive. If anything were to happen to the west's pets, every dried up cunt and soyboy fanatic will immediately pour all their western gibs into africa so that the half animals could subsist. Trump would send the fucking military.

A much bigger problem than any feral animal will always be nigger-tier apathy in whites. When two sentences of "muh apartheid" is enough to make the edumacated white readers of the economist blame apartheid for the glaring failure of niggers to make anything of 6% of GDP, and when people on /pol/ can't even read that far, then we as a race can look in the mirror to see the cause of a lot of our problems.

Why would the jews even bother mixing us with apes if we act just like them?

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[–] 18981353? ago 

As long as you sit on /pol/ from your moms basement consuming garbage and staying out of shape nothing will change. Kill kikes. There's no alternative.

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[–] 18981359? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

>>13349876

Goddamn niggers are fucking pathetic. Wjhen will they learn?

I just don't think they are capable of it. They have the same big issues of most other African countries. Rampant government corruption. And only the rich can afford to have a decent lifestyle. Naturally, they still 100% blame Apartheid for all their problems.

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[–] 18981362? ago 

Rampant government corruption. And only the rich can afford to have a decent lifestyle.

It's a big hypocritical for me to say too much about this part. The US is quickly heading in this direction too. At this rate, it may only be a few more generations before the rest of the world regards the US as a 3rd world nation as well.

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[–] 18981364? ago 

Nearly 80% of South Africa’s 9- or 10-year-olds cannot read and understand sentences in any language

What about the other 20%? If the bar is either not reading a sentence in ANY language, and managing to read 1 sentence, where did the rest of them fall?

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[–] 18981366? ago 

I'd assume it means basic literacy at a 10 year old level.

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[–] 18981369? ago 

I'd assume it means basic literacy at a 10 year old level.

I should qualify that to say basic literacy at a 10 year old level, according to international standards. But I'd guess that only a fraction of that 20% truly meet these standards. The rest only passing the bare minimum.

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[–] 18981373? ago 

In what world does a kid go from understanding nothing, to understanding everything at 9/10 year old level. I'd bet of that 20%, probably >15% managed to read a single sentence.

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