EDL3703 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2023 (578291)

EDL3703 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2023 Answers, guidelines, workings and references..............1. Section 40 of the Constitution provides foe the right to education. 2. In South African like countries like the US, local government has the direct responsibility for the provision of schooling within its area. 3 Both cooperative governance and concurrent powers are similar in the context of Education law 4. It is a fact that the structures for administration of education are only at National sphere of government. 5 The governing body and the principals of schools enjoy equal legal status in respect of management of the schools. 6. Provisions of both sections and 20 and 21 of South African Schools Act 84/1996 set out main functions of the school governing body to be teaching and learning. 7 According to various studies on learner treatment at schools, there is no difference between discipline and punishment 8. The type-of sanctions that the schools can impose are without limitt and consequences 9 The educators and principals of to school have unlimited rights over conducting searches on learners in school premises. 10.Where there is no bullying policy in pace, it acceptable in South African Schools for teachers to brush aside bullying as ordinary nasty behaviour of the learner 11. The Bill of Rights is termed the cornerstone of democracy and the heart of Constitution 12. Even if children are recognised as the bearer of rights, somehow they are regarded as being of a lesser value than those of adults. 13. The Bill of Rights has only vertical application. 14. A dispute concerning a Bill of Rights is a civil matter. 15. Co-operative governance envisages coordination of all governing bodies across all 9 provinces of the Republic of South Africa