Educators' Social Responsibility

A quarter of our population in South Africa are already unemployed.

 

To this will be added 176447 matriculants who failed their exams! 265673 matriculants did not pass well enough to get into university. 33 schools had a 0% matric pass rate! 106 schools had less than 20% pass rate!

 

The reality today is that a Senior Certificate on its own isn’t worth all that much in the job market. It’s a fact that about 50% of all unemployed people didn’t complete high school. Many unemployed people turn to crime, drugs and prostitution.

 

The Senior Certificate exam is just a reflection of what is happening in the lower standards. According to some educators, many of our matrics can’t read or write properly. We are of a lower standard than international norms, and fare worse than our neighboring countries. Basically, there are huge problems with our teaching system.

 

So, when there are problems with the system, this reflects in the students, and this in turn reflects in the unemployment and crime statistics.

 

I ask when will educators start taking ownership of the huge responsibility they have in improving the social ills of our country, and see their jobs as more than “just a job”?

 

Of course, there are solutions to these problems. I don’t have all the answers – but I do have one! Why not use an easy method of distributing pupil school reports to the ones that care most – the parents of the students. Every parent cares how their children do at school! They can encourage their children IF THEY KNOW. Check out www.SchoolReportServices to see how.