Challenges awaiting young people
Ignorance is harmful. To avoid spreading this mentally transmitted delay in the classroom and school yard read on ……
In the five years that we spent in high school, we indulge our youthful selves in school yard leisure. Think about bunking classes, anonymous vulgar gossip writings engrafted on the toilet walls, copied homework, unprepared speech, after school fights fat bunny chow and endless chats on Mxit. It’s the realities of high school student life.
Nursed in the Jacuzzi of high school comfort zone, post apartheid youth wants everything on a silver platter.
As a result more and more young people are staying out of school, some of them have taken unnecessary gap years, and while others are studying courses they don’t want, in the wrong institutions within fields they did not plan on entering, all because of lack of information, poor planning and prioritization.
Real life episode…..
Post matrik disaster!
Just like any other matriculant, I had it all figured out in my head about my future career prospects. I knew which institution I wanted to go to, I knew what I wanted to study, I also knew how much my desired course would costs. I even had a glimpse of how my success story would sound like after I have finished. What I did was very beneficial in preparation for varsity. I wanted to study in a prestigious institution. I did not consider the financial aspects of the three year duration of the course; food, clothing, studying material, transport expenses, accommodation and every little cent for my student life. Out of excitement I went ahead and applied and registered only to realize I had to bid AFDA farewell before I even started. Bingo, I can’t afford it. Life after matric sank in. A gap year was the only option. So I learned that ……
You should let the people responsible for your tuition fees know about your plans way before time. And I mean way before time. Let them know why, where, when, where you are going to study. Never expect people to know about your vision and dreams, not even your parents. Had I organized everything in time. I would have not had to resort to my second option. Today I would probably be narrating a different story. Avoid re-living my story and read on….
Dineo Makotanyane
Dineo Makotanyane
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