A probing question
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:02 am
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Re: A probing question
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:09 am
I posted that yesterday, August 28 and timing is everything. A couple of hours later, two of the girls from Bolokanang were dropped off at our house for help with school homework. They both had the same tasks, a math paper on the volume of solid objects and a Life Orientation project.
The LO project requires them to get permission from their parent/guardian to work for 3 hours at a local "community service" organization; do the work; get a report from the administrator of the service organization confirming their participation; write their own report about the group and what they did. Everything was to be completed and handed in to the LO teacher on the morning of. . . . Friday August 30.
"No, tannie. They gave it to us today". "No, ntate. They did not give it to us on August 14 as it says on the paper". They may have been telling the truth; it's not outlandish.
We felt like the alien adult in the picture above as we gave them the bad news. Of course, it was impossible for them to do what was required on the only day left - Thursday August 29.
Another statistic in the educational failure of South African schools.
The LO project requires them to get permission from their parent/guardian to work for 3 hours at a local "community service" organization; do the work; get a report from the administrator of the service organization confirming their participation; write their own report about the group and what they did. Everything was to be completed and handed in to the LO teacher on the morning of. . . . Friday August 30.
"No, tannie. They gave it to us today". "No, ntate. They did not give it to us on August 14 as it says on the paper". They may have been telling the truth; it's not outlandish.
We felt like the alien adult in the picture above as we gave them the bad news. Of course, it was impossible for them to do what was required on the only day left - Thursday August 29.
Another statistic in the educational failure of South African schools.
Re: A probing question
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:47 pm
Being no stranger to procrastination, I have been in that same position many, many times (e.g. I can recall walking through local parks at night collecting leaves to hand in as a collection the next morning (after having had the assignment in hand for six weeks), I ewven wrote and handed my Masters thesis right before the deadline (I had done all the research and put it together, just hadn't started writing because I thought i had a few more weeks). However, I can also recall many school SNAFUs where I had to do something the teacher said (s)he had told us about weeks ago (even though no one remembered it) over the weekend (a book report for a book which I had not read (and for which Cliff Notes did not exist) comes to mind), so it could easily be either way.
And FWIW, my tendency toward procrastination has served me well as an attorney, a field where it is an art from. I cannot recall ever filing a document other than right before the deadline, and speding sleepless nights the night before "finishing" it (with the attendant adrenaline pumping). And it's a satisfaction only a true procrastinator knows.
And FWIW, my tendency toward procrastination has served me well as an attorney, a field where it is an art from. I cannot recall ever filing a document other than right before the deadline, and speding sleepless nights the night before "finishing" it (with the attendant adrenaline pumping). And it's a satisfaction only a true procrastinator knows.