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SADTU Western Cape Statement, 18 October 2016 Reports of Violence and Intimidation during the Systemic Evaluation Campaign The South African Democratic Teachers' Union in the Western Cape would like to distance itself from news reports indicating that some of our members were involved in acts of violence and intimidation at some schools in the province. We condemn the use of violence in the strongest terms; however we make no secret of the fact that we are driving the campaign aimed at drawing the attention of WCED to stop administering these systemic tests. WCED has failed to convince us of the benefits of these tests on the improvement of education results in the Western Cape. Since the inception of these tests in 2002, the province has not realised an improvement in Grade 12 results, instead we have been surpassed by other provinces. We also firmly believe that WCED has collected enough data over a period thirteen years to inform it of the challenges within the education system in the province. This substantiates our claim that these tests are nothing more than just another money making scheme that are aimed at enriching a few individuals with no intention of improving education output, more especially in working class communities. The acts of violence reported are as a direct result of intimidation by WCED. Instead of finding solutions to the current predicament WCED resorted to writing intimidating letters to schools. Contrary to the WCED stance that learners and parents have no say in the writing of these tests. We firmly believe that education is a societal issue and all stake holders have a vested interest, hence the involvement of COSAS and SGBs in the campaign. The campaign is proving to be successful as many schools have heeded the call of the union not to participate in the administration of these tests. As SADTU we are committed to quality teaching and learning at all schools, hence we will not shy away from challenges confronting education in the province and we need no invitation to do so. Issued by the Provincial Secretariat For further comments contact: Jonavon Rustin, Provincial Secretary, 083 633 5714, Sibongile Kwazi, Deputy Provincial Secretary, 083 627 8006 Mbulelo January, Provincial Chairperson, 083 325 2948 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14299 (20161018) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002001d2294b%249901e550%24cb05aff0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
