NEWS: SA’s vast generation of ‘lost children’

Half of the 1.1 million pupils who were in Grade 10 in 2012 never made it to matric this year.

This staggering statistic reflecting South Africa’s “lost children” is being blamed on poverty, learning deficits and pressure from schools bent on achieving high pass rates.

Educators argue that the “dangerous” drop-out figures mean these pupils are swelling the ranks of the unemployed, and make for a skewed national matric pass rate.

Reports produced by the Department of Education since 2007 point to the high rate of grade repetition to explain the low number of pupils writing matric.

Pupils were spending a few years repeating Grades 10 and 11 before permanently leaving school.

For more on this story see the Pretoria News- October 21, 2014

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