Basic Education seeks harsher penalties for parents with non-school goers - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Of the about 100 000 home scholars that are in South Africa, only 1 500 are registered with the Department of Basic Education

Currently, Section 3 of the South African Schools Act provides that parents who do not ensure that their children attend school from the age of seven until the learner reaches the age of 15 or Grade 9, will be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. However, the BELA Bill seeks to extend the penalty to six years.

However, of the about 100 000 home scholars that are in South Africa, only 1 500 are registered with the Department of Basic Education. This is according to a national census on home education conducted in 2011.“We want all parents who wish to take their children out of mainstream schools to register them so that we can know how many there are and where they are in order for us to be able to monitor learning and teaching which will be happening in the home.

Parents opting for the medium have highlighted some concerns that they have with mainstream education in the country. Former home-schooling mother, Charlotte Kenny, home-schooled her son and daughter from Grades 1 to Grade 2. She lists some of the reasons that led to her opting for home education instead of mainstream schools.

Show me just one parent langushing in jail on six months imprisonment, only then we can judge if there's a need to up it to six years.

Has the 6 months sentence ever been applied? If not why bother. Making the sentence longer has no impact, rather the fear of getting sentenced does.

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