Seapoint on a Friday afternoon

Absolutely GORGEOUS! I was waiting for the Bull to finish work and this wasn’t a bad place to wait considering the traffic I had to go through from a friends house in Tableview to get there. I was lucky enough to take the pic just as there was a boat crossing over the rippling waves of sunlight.

I have one question: Why?

So I was looking around IOL and just reading news that wasn’t going to tick me off and get a rant going when I came across this gem:

Education MEC Cameron Dugmore warned parents on Wednesday that they faced fines of up to R5 000 if they failed to ensure that their children remained at school until the school year ends on Friday.

Dugmore also warned principals who failed to ensure that pupils pitched up for classes that they would be penalised under the Employment of Educators Act and the Western Cape Schools Act.

I’m thinking this guy might not have kids, especially teenagers. I know when I wanted to bunk I came up with all sorts of ways to do it, especially in that last week of school when all we were doing was either watching movies, playing random games or just shutting up while our teacher read her book. Fining the parents is a bit harsh though, considering how many kids bunk without their parents knowing, a better solution would be to keep the kid in for a week for every day he bunks, that way everyone wins – parents don’t have the kids piling up the houses and the kids most likely won’t do it if they’re getting less holiday time. Fining principals too though? What the hell are they going to do to ensure pupils pitch up? Ride around to every students house and pick them up? It’s all a bit nonsensical to me. Although this is assuming they aren’t some weird ass principal who told the kids to stay home, then you can fine him (while the kids worship him as a hero). God only knows what this guy is trying to achieve…I mean besides fining a bunch of parents for something completely stupid just to get what could turn out to be an ass load of cash…because this isn’t exactly a solution that will work well to this bunking problem.