EDL3703 Assignment 1 2025 - Due March 2025

Opened: Monday, 3 February 2025, 8:00 AM Due: Monday, 17 March 2025, 7:00 PM 763179 EDL3703 Assignment 01 2025 First Semester The assignment is in the form of an essay. Although we prefer typed assignments, we also accept neatly handwritten work. The length of your assignment should not exceed 2500 words in total (approximately five (5) typed pages in 1.5 line spacing). Should your assignment exceed the restriction placed on the number of pages, everything written after page 5 will not be assessed. Your essay must be properly referenced. The practice of merely inserting a bibliography at the end of the essay will not suffice. If you are submitting a typed assignment, then referencing should be done in footnotes. The OSCOLA technique must be used for referencing your sources. Question The governing body of Hoërskool Erasmus, east of Bloemfontein, was forced by the provincial department of education to accept 42 black English-speaking learners in 2014. The governing body contends that it is an exclusively Afrikaans school and was bullied into accommodating the learners even though it did not have the necessary capacity to provide for them. The governing body held a meeting to discuss the matter with its members and has decided to challenge the department in court. As a paralegal, the chairperson of the governing body of Hoërskool Erasmus approaches you for advice in this matter. Write a legal opinion in which you comprehensively evaluate the governing body's chances of success in its proposed legal battle with the provincial department of education.