Curro Select’s Cooper College reveals horrifying matric results despite high fees
Curro Select High School in Northriding is trending for all the wrong reasons after the release of the matric results.
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Clarence Ford speaks to Barbara Friedman about this and other stories trending online.
Listen to the interview in the audio below.
Curro Select Northriding’s Cooper College has extremely high fees of over R100 000 per year.
However, despite parents shelling out an enormous amount of money, the school produced dismal matric results.
Cooper College offers the Cambridge curriculum and has small classes of 23 students, which is supposed to give learners personal attention.
News24 posted an article revealing that roughly half of the matric students failed outright, and the bachelors pass rate for those who sat for the Cambridge AS International exam was only 3%.
“A total of 11 of the 23 pupils failed.”
– Barbara Friedman, Barbs Wire Correspondent
These disastrous results contrasts the 98% pass for students who wrote the IEB exams.
Parents are furious as students reportedly stated that teachers were not always available to assist them.
“Parents often sacrifice a lot to send their children to a private school… I would’ve expected them to do brilliantly.”
– Barbara Friedman, Barbs Wire Correspondent