It seems that female school teachers can’t leave the young boys alone – but when sentenced, don’t get in nearly the same amount of trouble as males.
Raising your kids in South Africa might not be so bad – just know how to play the game.
First it was that dress, then it was a cat walking up (or down) some stairs and now it’s a maths problem. The internet can be a real drag sometimes.
Remember that time you saw the old school bully flipping burgers at McDonald’s and you did about ten inside fist pumps? Well there’s no such happy ending here.
Kids. They’re just not made the same as they used to be. We were well behaved and polite and wore skirts of decent length. These new kids? They’re not so hot.
So this has happened in Springs and it really doesn’t make for pretty reading. If you thought poor matric results were our biggest education worries you were wrong.
There is plenty of misinformation flying around at the moment about last year’s set of matric results. This bit of info is rather concerning for all of us.
A assistant cheerleading coach has quit her job at Pasedena High School in Houston, Texas, after it was exposed that she was having sex with one of the students.
Talk about having your childhood stolen! In yet another case of teacher vs child, a drama teacher is now in custody after paying schoolboys thousands of Rands in exchange for very inappropriate behaviour.
We had a few parents like this during my time as a scholar. Highly emboerrissing for the parent’s child, as well as all his friends. In this instance things got quite bad, as a rival team dad allegedly let rip on a KES ‘learner.’
A new controversial simulated rape game is reportedly causing a stir in Western Cape schools.
SA comedy group Hammerhead show us exactly how NOT to pick up women, with some terrible lines that will make you cringe. Earmuffs for those sensitive to bad language.
Inspired by European Gothic Architecture, this school looks almost exactly like Hogwarts, the school from Harry Potter…
What we are dealing with here is a new sub-culture which celebrates violence in schools. At least, that’s how it seems.
Everyone had a class in their school career that they absolutely loathed. You couldn’t wait for it to be over and you spent most of your breaks shouting profanities at the poor teacher. When this student sent his English teacher a crude letter concerning her class, she did what every English teacher does best: correct all the mistakes in a bright red pen.
We have just found ourselves wondering how on earth Jacob Zuma sleeps at night when we heard about this: all Grade One to 11 pupils in Olifantshoek, in the Northern Cape, will repeat their 2012 grades next year.
It’s never cool when a child dies, and it is definitely not something that should be celebrated. But that doesn’t seem to apply here, as a local kid took his Metro Cop mother’s gun to school and gunned down the school bully – leaving a bunch of kids ‘free.’
Wow, this whole sports drugs vibe is getting out of hand. If it wasn’t enough that one of our own top cyclists was busted shortly after Lance Armstrong, we now have a problem in our schools. And apparently it’s the worst in the world.
Complaining that sex education guidelines are woefully out of date, the UK teachers union, the National Association of Head Teachers has called for a novel new approach to helping kids learns about all those funny changes and why girls and boys get together. This shouldn’t cause any trouble with parents, I’m sure.
Yesterday, news reports surfaced about a schoolboy who was allegedly sexually assaulted with a broom and a banana. The incident took place during an Edgemead High School rugby tour. Even though authorities have opted not to prosecute anyone, Childline is campaigning for legal steps to be taken against the school and the coach who was charge when the alleged events took place.
News has recently come to light revealing disturbing details of a 16-year old boy who was raped while on a school rugby tour. The incident was part of an elaborate initiation process which clearly went horribly astray, all of which was recorded on cellphones.
How’s this? I was late to school every now and then, but I was never met with police. This seems a little hardcore: 27 pupils who arrived late for school were greeted by a group of police officers waiting for them. This comes after 700 students and some teachers arrived late to the same school on Monday.
With the news that Apple looks set to revolutionise school learning with its textbook initiative, comes another report that a Johannesburg private school is going to make iPads compulsory this year, at parents’ cost. How long until other schools follow suit?
As part of their ‘reinvention of the textbook,’ Apple yesterday unveiled three new applications for use in the digital educational under their Apple in Education program: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The tools are designed to allow for interactive textbooks, digital textbook creation, and open-access educational resources from top universities, respectively.
That’s just one of the facts I gleaned from the new Rustenburg Girls High School promotional video which has just hit the net – you might want to have a peep. Besides from the school’s excellent educational offering and facilities, I was more impressed with the head-girl, who completely owns the camera. Her delivery was […]