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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 904324" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>My mom has a business that assists the schools in our province, and while my hometown's high schools all have hostels, it's not being used properly like in the past. When I was in high school, all the kids in the hostel were from farms or rural areas, that was at least 50km out of town, and our school was the closest. Now because of this idea of districts and school jurisdiction, the hostels are no longer full. In fact some schools are even starting to remodel some parts of their hostels so that they can lease out rooms to people who are working class.</p><p></p><p>But let's take this discussion further. When I was in high school, in my grade we were about 330 pupils. Of which about 50-60 were black/coloured students, mostly because there wasn't a high school nearer to where they lived, or it was full. Since then our small town became a major city, and 3 more schools have been built since then. One of them in the area/district where these black/coloured kids lived. This school is massive! it has room for up to 6000 pupils from grade 7 - 12. While my school couldn't hold more than 1500 pupils. Do the math. So what happened? less black/coloured kids came to my school, as they would rather go to the school nearer to home, where their friends and neighbours are as well. So my school had to make another plan, to get the kids in order to fill their sports teams with the minimum quota. They offered scholarships to kids that showed promise on the sport field. And all of them are there on merit, but the question is had it not been for the quota, those kids wouldn't have been in my school, and might not have played against the same type of opposition.</p><p></p><p>I do agree with you [USER=40986]@Steve-o[/USER] . Why do we keep on bothering this discussion, when no matter what we say, it's being dismissed by an ignorant poster. Why are we not being asked questions, so that we can provide him with facts and information? Instead we are being provided with answers contradictory to the facts, but still the tirade is never-ending. It's enfuriating! What do we need to do to get through to him? I'm running out of ideas</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 904324, member: 40658"] My mom has a business that assists the schools in our province, and while my hometown's high schools all have hostels, it's not being used properly like in the past. When I was in high school, all the kids in the hostel were from farms or rural areas, that was at least 50km out of town, and our school was the closest. Now because of this idea of districts and school jurisdiction, the hostels are no longer full. In fact some schools are even starting to remodel some parts of their hostels so that they can lease out rooms to people who are working class. But let's take this discussion further. When I was in high school, in my grade we were about 330 pupils. Of which about 50-60 were black/coloured students, mostly because there wasn't a high school nearer to where they lived, or it was full. Since then our small town became a major city, and 3 more schools have been built since then. One of them in the area/district where these black/coloured kids lived. This school is massive! it has room for up to 6000 pupils from grade 7 - 12. While my school couldn't hold more than 1500 pupils. Do the math. So what happened? less black/coloured kids came to my school, as they would rather go to the school nearer to home, where their friends and neighbours are as well. So my school had to make another plan, to get the kids in order to fill their sports teams with the minimum quota. They offered scholarships to kids that showed promise on the sport field. And all of them are there on merit, but the question is had it not been for the quota, those kids wouldn't have been in my school, and might not have played against the same type of opposition. I do agree with you [USER=40986]@Steve-o[/USER] . Why do we keep on bothering this discussion, when no matter what we say, it's being dismissed by an ignorant poster. Why are we not being asked questions, so that we can provide him with facts and information? Instead we are being provided with answers contradictory to the facts, but still the tirade is never-ending. It's enfuriating! What do we need to do to get through to him? I'm running out of ideas [/QUOTE]
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