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The national education system is a "disaster," the Afrikaans teachers union SAOU told the ANC on Thursday.

It emphasised that the success rate of pupils who started in Grade One in 1995 was only 24 percent, union general secretary Chris Klopper told reporters.

"There were 1,2 million pupils who got lost along the way, we want to know what happened to them."

Klopper was speaking after meeting African national Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and other senior party officials in Johannesburg.

Klopper said 1,5 million pupils started in Grade 1 in 1995 and only 360,000 completed matric in 2007.

"The same happened with the 1996 intake and matric results in 2008." The success rate for 2008 was only 22 percent, he said.

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Cry, the beloved country.

Further, this is obviouly something close to my heart, and with 3 kids, 2 in school, i'm seeing the down side all the time.

I was going to make a post entitled the "Misconception of condoms". My dughter (12) comes home the other day, and tells how she was learning about HIV and AIDS. Now for some strange reason, she picks up on this topic as IMPORTANT. Something in the way it's presented certainly stands out for her.

Already i get told: "i know about SEX" her emphasis not mine. And that condoms are for when you want to make babies.

STOP THE FUCKING BUS .... WHAT?

So, we have this 12 year old girl, who got the idea that sex is ok before marriage, that its important, and she completely misunderstands the use od condoms.

We very quickly mended the damage, but she's a smart girl, with a good broad knowledge of the subject (our bitch had puppies a while ago) and parents who take an interest in her work, and she got it wrong anyway.

Something is wrong with that entire scenario.

Exactly the same happened with voting. "Well you see, dad, that voting is about PARTIES, like, um, the ANC, and you have to go and vote for them."

She could not name a single other political party. She came home recently with a woksheet describing the bantu civilisations as having having huge cities which rivalled those of Europe. No, they didn't. That's a lie. They had many things perhaps, but comparing 18th century Africa with 18th century Vienna, well you see what i'm getting at.

I dropped out of school, because i could smell the lies and hypocrisy. Not really my finest moment, but the point is kids KNOW value, and they're not getting it.