6000 SA Schools close due to Strikes and Intimidation – August 2010

I don’t get it. Children who are the leaders of the future are being forced not to attend school. What if their parents decide to finally make the move to leave South Africa? Perhaps an exaggeration, but if half of school pupils leave South Africa with their parents to get a better education in another country, that’s a ton of less school fees being paid here in South Africa.

I predict that due to strikes and intimidation going on right now, parents who had merely thought of leaving SA before, will be leaving soon.

Some may say that missing a few days of school is only a small inconvenience – but I don’t see that 6000 schools closing for a few days is just a small inconvenience. The leaders of the future need to be educated, and not have to struggle to catch up. Is it not in the constitution that children have a right to education?

As for those blocking entry to hospitals, I don’t get that either. If a truck had to come along and the driver loses control of the vehicle due to a blow out or any other problem, and careens into 100 people outside a hospital, wouldn’t those people want to receive medical treatment from the very hospital they’re blocking the entrance to? Or would the half that were not injured block their entrance?

It’s all rather confusing and I do hope that a solution is found soon.

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2010

Further reading:

Disturbing reports related to the strike On the page this link goes to, scroll down to some disturbing reports – these reports make me think that a state of emergency should be declared.

Strikers force model c schools to close

Over 1 million on strike