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The recent events at Fish Hoek High School raise the question: if the school governing body and the teaching faculty had been involved in the controversial ‘diversity session’, could the events that transpired have been avoided?
Many schools have threatened to prevent pupils from attending their matric dance as a way to compel parents to pay school fees. But the law does not allow this, write Tasreeq Ferreira and Anathi Canham.
The matric dance is part of a school’s activities and by law, learners should not be excluded from participating on the basis of non-payment of school fees.
American education will not flourish under a system that is increasingly centralized, as the Common Core threatens to create.
As unbelievable as it sounds, learners with disabilities are still being denied access to basic education in South Africa.