SOUTH AFRICA SCHOOL GIRL PREGNANCIES June 5, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in Education.trackback
Some more information from my chat with the two black female teachers I talked about in my two previous posts.
School girls have now cottoned on to the fact that they can get the grant of approx R200pm per child per month and thousands of them have fallen pregnant on purpose in order to get the grant.
Every month they now miss a days school in order to go and stand in the queue to collect their grant money and to cap it all, the father of the baby (normally a school boy) also goes with her and then he gets half of the grant from her.
Who looks after the baby and pays all the expenses? Their poor parents or grandparents. The “mother and father” of the baby immediately spend the money on themselves when they obtain the monthly grant.
Now imagine how much time the young mother actually spends at school, she goes home during her school breaks to breastfeed the baby and when the child has to go to the clinic she has to take the child there. As we know, that is an all day affair here in SA.
The teachers have asked that they be allowed to teach abstaining from sex, but the government says no and provides free condoms for them and increases the monthly grant!
Where is this all going to end one might ask?
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They probably spend R100 in transport to the grant office, and on the burger and coke they get on the way back, plus cellphone calls made that day. Silliness. Is a human life worth so little?