Teachers: Scraped from the bottom of the tertiary barrel.

Here we have another teachers mouthpiece too scared to call these people out. G-man does his bit to rectify this absurd perception.

http://voices.news24.com/mohamed-saeed/2014/01/reformation-school-system/

G-man:

Here's a novel idea; how about we raise the standards for teachers to qualify FIRST? It is outrageous to me that writers like yourself grind out the same platitudes with regards to your education system completely ignoring the very link in the schooling chain that is causing the most harm in South Africa: The teacher!

You can throw as much money as you want at this problem, hand out millions of iPads, refill libraries with books that were stolen, rebuild schools that were razed by the very scum we're trying to protect and promote, but it won't make a blind bit of difference if your teacher has zero respect for her vocation, is an Affirmative Actionite ne'er-do-weller and just sits around for 30 days waiting for his or her fat give-away check which the tax payer generously ponies up every month, except for occasionally relieving the boredom by molesting a few pupils.

I read through your piece twice Mohamed, and the word 'teacher' came up a grand total of ZERO times. You didn't miss this, you're just as brain-washed into believing these people deserve more money, and that the default feelings on teachers is that they're god-sends and require molly-coddling whenever they come down from the pedestal you placed them on. So, ergo, YOU are part of the problem!

THEY need to be held accountable and held to a higher standard than anyone else out there. And adding a little personal responsibility wouldn't go amiss either.

You already have one of the worst Rondt:student-literacy rates in the entire world. By going the tired old route of nibbling at the edge of the issue will do nothing if teachers don't perform. What you lot need is a backbone and to call the entire teaching profession out for what they have become; a blight on your country. Churning out illiterate unemployable rabble rousers year-in-year-out can only result in a breakdown of your entire society.