Posted on 11/18/2007 7:07:35 AM PST by george76
Zimbabwe's education system, once regarded as among the best in Africa, is in crisis because of the country's economic meltdown. Almost a quarter of the teachers have quit the country, absenteeism is high, buildings are crumbling and standards plummeting.
In one of the most shocking examples of the Dickensian conditions, a reporter witnessed hundreds of children...writing in the dust on the floor because they had no exercise books or pencils.
"Starting this term, we are supposed to buy our own teaching materials," ... "With our paltry salaries I don't see it working. We will just sit in the classes."
Absenteeism is rife. Concern Mkhwananzi, 42, who left three weeks ago to seek work in South Africa, said almost a quarter of his class of 45 pupils had dropped out. "They were coming to school with empty stomachs because there was no food at home," he said. "Then they would faint, so they preferred to stay at home."
Conditions at the universities and colleges are just as bad. Fees have skyrocketed, student grants are almost worthless and teaching is almost at a halt. At the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, disused offices and storerooms have been turned into makeshift brothels by students and staff who have turned to prostitution to make ends meet....
The tragedy is that the education system had been one of the few achievements of which Mr Mugabe could be proud...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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When this was the case, was it called Rhodesia?
What a stupid analogy, Dickens' London and Zimbabwe.
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Ah, the gifts of Marxism/socialism.
And a special thanks to the worst President in history, Jimmy Carter, for “certifying” the fake elections of Mugabe and every other totalitarian thug on the planet.
Yep. You got it. After the sell-out and switch to "majority rule" ie. communist backed dictator, it was a race to the bottom.
Exactly, Liberals never take responsibilities for their failed policies, they act as if something mysterious happened:
“Right to privacy”..to do what?..Why commit infanticide of course.
Depose Rhodesia, now children are starving and a “who me” vocabulary begins to emerge.
...”Liberals never think what they have done is wrong they just think they haven’t done enough of it yet.”
That sums it up perfectly. And it’s more than just a symptom.
Yes, you could say that prostitution is a way to make ends meet. That's as good a way to put it as any.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Already happening with another Carter-Certified country. This article might as well read: “Thousands of teachers abandon Venezuela”.
http://www.mequieroir.com/texasteacher_1107.phtml
This site (in Spanish) promotes emigration from Venezuela and includes this section on how educated Venezuelas can turn into bilingual teachers in Texas.
In communism the rich are forever filthy rich and the poor are forever filthy poor.
BTW, mequieroir.com would translate as iwanttoleave.com.
Sure they do. They do it right now, they do it right here.
What would be more proper would be:
“Even the best teachers don’t want to work when there is no union guaranteed job security, the ability to teach any agenda that they want, and no money to pay them to do so.
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Yes.
My CO in the Guard (Bob H.) and Keith soldered together in S.F. (Viet Nam) and R.L.I. What I learned from them I had a chance to teach to a few Marines that "utilized" that knowledge in Iraq.
Yea. Comes around – Goes around.
BTW, the pee-cee crap you hear from the "liberals," in other words the communists, is the same crap that Keith told me they were hearing there in Rhodesia before the sellout and jimmy carter fixing the elections.
That yimmy cahtah(the dickless wonder) will be burning in hell for a long, long time.
Excellent detective work! The flight of the Venezuelan middle class has begun. “Little Venezuela” in Miami is the Doral neighborhood west of the airport.
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