In South Africa, The Select Committee on Education and
Recreation is disappointed with the Department of Basic Education because they
haven’t made progress on getting rid of mud or inappropriate schools. According to the article, there are 496
inappropriate schools, and nothing is being done about them. These schools are inappropriate
because they lack water, electricity, and sanitation. Therefore they’re referred
to as “mud schools”. However, the
Department Deputy is planning on getting rid of 50 mud schools. With the other
mud schools they are planning to electrify 164 and supply water to 188. Then
they are planning on delivering sanitation infrastructure to 354 during
2011/2012 year. However, none of this
has happened yet and the Committee is not happy. Ms. Makgate is Committee Chairperson
and she is not happy that no progress has been made. According to the article,
she has said that the committee is disappointed and this reflects off of the
Department that education is not taken seriously.
This would be considered a global social issue because many
kids in Southern Africa have to go to schools that are not sanitary. These
schools also don’t have water or electricity so the conditions of the school
are not acceptable for students to learn at. Sometimes it can be harder to
learn in bad conditions especially if the conditions are unsanitary. These
schools are poor, however, the Department said they were going to fix them and
they haven’t. Since Ms. Makgate told the Department that this shows an impression
that they don’t take education seriously; this makes the department look bad
and untrustworthy since they haven’t kept to their word about fixing the
schools.
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