The Democratic Alliance recently responded to the reported matric pass rate and called it false. The DA said that the pass rate should include other factors.
Newslite SA earlier reported that the pass rate was more than 81%.
On the website of the Democratic Alliance the following statement was made:
However, whilst Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and the Department of Education are celebrating an all-time high matric pass rate of 81.3%, the Democratic Alliance can reveal that the real pass rate is in fact 38.9%.
In 2017, a total of 1 052 080 learners were enrolled in grade 10, yet only 409 906 learners eventually passed matric last year. This means only 38.9% of grade 10 learners actually wrote and passed matric.
This is for the most part due to an extraordinarily high drop-out rate, which means that hundreds of thousands of learners are denied the chance to write matric, let alone pass it.
This is an indication of a dismally failing system, not a functional and successful one.
The DA-led Western Cape is the province with the lowest drop-out rate (33.4%) and therefore the highest real pass rate, standing at 54.8%.
The real national pass rate for 2018 was 37.6%. The real pass rate of 2019 is, therefore, an improvement of a mere 1.3%.
For years now the DBE punts the national pass rate because it shifts the focus from their perpetual failures as an ANC government.
The Democratic Alliance attached the following table:
Discussion about this post