Should private schools be nationalised?

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Year after year, the South African education system is unfailingly ranked among the worst in the world. When looking for quality education for their children, parents naturally tend to gravitate toward private schools. These schools are often touted as the best-performing in the country. More often than not, they’re also among the most expensive. You get what you pay for, or at least so we hope.

What about parents who simply can’t afford to send their children to quality schools, though? What chance does that child have in South Africa?

This is the question posed by a group of people calling for the nationalisation of private schools.

The original news report, from Times Live, cited no sources. While we found the report a little bit hollow, like most hollow things it has resonated. It has lit a fire under social media.

While almost nobody of sound mind will take #NationalisePrivateSchools seriously, it still poses an interesting problem.

We took a look at this idea – at the pros and cons and what’s behind it. Could it be the cure to South Africa’s delinquent education system? Or is it just another case of destroying everything that still works and replacing it with mediocrity?

Private health care, anyone?

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