Reading, writing ... where’s the ’rithmetic?
Take a loss of pupils and add higher school fees, and what do you get? An F in maths literacy for Curro
27 March 2025 - 05:00
Olympic glory. The biggest matric class. The best results ever. The Curro presentation for the year ended December 2024 is full of exciting news. But where are the kids?
In fairness to Curro, its disclosure is solid. (As was the silver medal that matric student Bayanda Walaza won as part of the men’s 4x100 relay team in Paris.) The results deck includes a great slide that shows the reasons for pupils leaving. For example, there were 4,931 matric graduates at the end of 2024 — in corporate incentivisation land, these would be called “good leavers”...
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