,INC3701 Assignment 4 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 – DUE 21 JULY 2025; 100% correct
solutions and explanations.
Question 1
Read the following article and answer the questions.
What it’s really like to be at school in South Africa
Chiara Baumann 2018-06-30
Getting an education is fundamental to moving our young
people out of poverty and into economic opportunity. So why
are we struggling to ensure children make it all the way through
school? Perhaps it’s because we fail to see what they’re up
against each and every day.
As a country we have committed to greater access to education
for all children. The importance of early childhood education
(the first five years of a child’s life) to improve children’s
capacity to learn and thrive is now firmly on the national
agenda. Even the significance of parental care is making inroads
in our attempt to give children the best start in life right from
conception. But what use are these building blocks if we are not
, investing the same amount of energy and forward-thinking into
keeping our children in school?
Studies show that over the course of primary and secondary
school, we lose 45 percent of learners they never make it to
Grade 12, much less write a matric exam. While it may be legal
in South Africa to exit the school system at the end of Grade 9,
we know that young people without a matric are those who
struggle most to find a job. To make matters worse, further
educational opportunities are scarce for those who don’t
matriculate: only one percent of learners who drop out of school
go on to study at colleges.
We have now reached a situation where more than half of young
people are unemployed, and almost a third of all youth are out of
employment, training and education opportunities. Such high
levels of economic exclusion lead to crime and social instability
that keeps mounting over time. Dropout is therefore not an
individual problem, it’s a challenge that affects us all.
For many, the term “school dropout” conjures up the image of
lazy, naughty, reckless teens — learners who choose to leave
school and so are responsible for their own misfortune. But,
what if we looked at the situation from the point of view of our
learners? Perhaps we would better understand what it’s really
like to be a learner in South Africa.
Semester 1 2025 – DUE 21 JULY 2025; 100% correct
solutions and explanations.
Question 1
Read the following article and answer the questions.
What it’s really like to be at school in South Africa
Chiara Baumann 2018-06-30
Getting an education is fundamental to moving our young
people out of poverty and into economic opportunity. So why
are we struggling to ensure children make it all the way through
school? Perhaps it’s because we fail to see what they’re up
against each and every day.
As a country we have committed to greater access to education
for all children. The importance of early childhood education
(the first five years of a child’s life) to improve children’s
capacity to learn and thrive is now firmly on the national
agenda. Even the significance of parental care is making inroads
in our attempt to give children the best start in life right from
conception. But what use are these building blocks if we are not
, investing the same amount of energy and forward-thinking into
keeping our children in school?
Studies show that over the course of primary and secondary
school, we lose 45 percent of learners they never make it to
Grade 12, much less write a matric exam. While it may be legal
in South Africa to exit the school system at the end of Grade 9,
we know that young people without a matric are those who
struggle most to find a job. To make matters worse, further
educational opportunities are scarce for those who don’t
matriculate: only one percent of learners who drop out of school
go on to study at colleges.
We have now reached a situation where more than half of young
people are unemployed, and almost a third of all youth are out of
employment, training and education opportunities. Such high
levels of economic exclusion lead to crime and social instability
that keeps mounting over time. Dropout is therefore not an
individual problem, it’s a challenge that affects us all.
For many, the term “school dropout” conjures up the image of
lazy, naughty, reckless teens — learners who choose to leave
school and so are responsible for their own misfortune. But,
what if we looked at the situation from the point of view of our
learners? Perhaps we would better understand what it’s really
like to be a learner in South Africa.
