Cosas wants govt to change curriculum

The organisatiom doesn’t believe the current curriculum is enabling pupils to become active producers in the economy.

“We need the curriculum that will speak about the status quo of the country,” says Cosas secretary-general Teboho Magafane.

“For example, it must speak about the economy of the country, as the current curriculum doesn’t teach an African child how to create a car it teaches them how to buy a car. So we must have  something that will teach us how to create anything.”

Magafane says the country should scrap private schools and have a single curriculum for all pupils.

“If as the country we could have compulsory education and scrap all private schools. Then all schools belong to government and we won’t have the crisis we are facing, where students prefer private school instead of public schools.

“We only have one Minister of Education; we don’t have a minister of private schools.”

He says the problem lies in the education system making kids from rural areas believe that private schools or even schools in Gauteng are more important than other schools. 

“The problem in our country is the system and we need to deal with the system. Typical example is that in Gauteng, we have kids from some parts of the country believing that Gauteng schools are better than schools in other provinces.

“They are coming from own provinces to Gauteng hence we have placement problems, so as Cosas we saying we need to treat all provinces equally.”

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