,CMG3701 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 21 August 2025
SECTION A
Question 1 (25 marks)
1.1 Explain the concept of loco parentis and identify the specific
duties of care
Progressive Pathways Academy and its staff assumed towards
Thabo
and Lerato during the school trip. (4 marks)
1.2 Given the principle of loco parentis, analyse how Mr
Dlamini’s decision to
immediately send Thabo and Lerato home from Kruger National
Park, especially at
night, aligns with or deviates from the expected standard of
care for a responsible
parent or guardian. (4 marks)
1.3 Differentiate between the school’s general duty of
supervision and its specific
duty of care under loco parentis in the context of the learners’
safety during the
excursion. Was Mr Dlamini’s action fundamentally flawed in its
application of this duty?
, (4 marks)
1.4 Describe the core requirement of the audi alteram partem
rule
and explain why it is a fundamental principle in disciplinary
proceedings. (4 marks)
1.5 Illustrate how Mr Dlamini’s immediate decision to send the
learners home, without a formal hearing or full opportunity for
their input (including
Lerato’s peer pressure claim), might be perceived as a violation
of the audi alteram
partem rule. (4 marks)
1.6 Deconstruct the tension between the immediate need for
safety
measures during an ongoing excursion and the procedural
demands
of the audi alteram partem rule. Propose how these two
competing interests could
have been balanced effectively by the school. (5 marks)
ANSWERS) 2025 - DUE 21 August 2025
SECTION A
Question 1 (25 marks)
1.1 Explain the concept of loco parentis and identify the specific
duties of care
Progressive Pathways Academy and its staff assumed towards
Thabo
and Lerato during the school trip. (4 marks)
1.2 Given the principle of loco parentis, analyse how Mr
Dlamini’s decision to
immediately send Thabo and Lerato home from Kruger National
Park, especially at
night, aligns with or deviates from the expected standard of
care for a responsible
parent or guardian. (4 marks)
1.3 Differentiate between the school’s general duty of
supervision and its specific
duty of care under loco parentis in the context of the learners’
safety during the
excursion. Was Mr Dlamini’s action fundamentally flawed in its
application of this duty?
, (4 marks)
1.4 Describe the core requirement of the audi alteram partem
rule
and explain why it is a fundamental principle in disciplinary
proceedings. (4 marks)
1.5 Illustrate how Mr Dlamini’s immediate decision to send the
learners home, without a formal hearing or full opportunity for
their input (including
Lerato’s peer pressure claim), might be perceived as a violation
of the audi alteram
partem rule. (4 marks)
1.6 Deconstruct the tension between the immediate need for
safety
measures during an ongoing excursion and the procedural
demands
of the audi alteram partem rule. Propose how these two
competing interests could
have been balanced effectively by the school. (5 marks)
