Madam – It is a sad time for South Africans as we watch so-called students participate in riots and burn down classrooms.
What message are these youngsters trying to send? If they are so eager to get a tertiary education, why break the facility down?
This is in response to the front page of the Newcastle Advertiser, where the student body of Majuba TVET College rallied together to show how destructive they could be.
In all honesty, this is a poor reflection on their view of life. There were so many other alternatives they could have taken, instead of burning tyres and a prefab class.
The very purpose of tertiary education is to round off your primary and high school education by studying for a career and joining the job market as an adult.
The fact that these youngsters were so destructive for not getting their own way, shows they are not ready for the adult world at all.
I am not saying a person should not fight for what you believe in, but if the fight involves hampering the learning of others and breaking educational facilities down, then you are merely an oversized toddler.
I believe people who are destructive in schools, colleges or universities should be expelled. If you are willing to burn a classroom down because no one wants to pay your transport fees, then you don’t really want to learn. There are people who are willing to walk if necessary, yet those who are willing to make sacrifices for studying are the ones that never complain.
Let’s act like adults and refrain from acting like hooligans, as there are some of us who do want to attend classes.
Annoyed student
