Horridly over regulated!

Today we visited two schools before returning to our home-base of Emafini.

Both are former "Model C" schools. During apartheid these schools were all white schools that might be described as semi-private. While they are public schools, there is a significant fee to parents attached to student attendance.

We visited Cape Recife High School, and Grey Junior School.

Cape Recife is a school that focuses on special education.  We only has a short amount of time to spend there, but what we saw fantastic. The services available to learners was amazing.

Ever since we have been in South Africa, many have talked about Grey as the school to aspire to be. Their mission is to develop the learners full potential in mind body and spirit. An all boys school, Grey is a former model c school. Their head master, Mr. Pearson, won my line of the day. He had been to the US and toured 17 schools his take on american education was that it was "horridly over regulated!"

While both schools charge parents fees for their children to attend, its clear that even with these fees, significant fundraising is required just to maintain their programs. 

Below you will find photos of two distinctively different public schools. How do you attempt to tackle equity issue? While both Lungisa and Grey work hard to maintain what they have, how can you justify the stark contrast in public schools?

Grey Boys School (Junior/Senior) Former Model C School.

Lungisa (A Township High School )