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Assignment 03

IMPORTANT

Before you attempt this assignment, please work through Study Units 5
and 6 in your Study Guide (TUT501/0/2022) and the relevant sections of
your prescribed and recommended textbooks.

Instructions:

NOTE: Before you start this assignment, please go to page 4 of


Tutorial Letter 501 (The Study Guide) to review the Outcomes and
Assessment Criteria for Units 5 and 6. Use the Outcomes and
Assessment criteria as guide for answering your questions.

1. This is an essay question which counts for 50 marks.


2. Ensure that your essay is coherent and grammatically correct.
Please note that structure and grammatical correctness are just
as important as the relevance of the content to the specific question
set.
3. Make sure you acknowledge your sources correctly and provide
a list of references in the correct format.
4. It is also important that you check your work carefully before your
final submission.
5. Do not include any drafts or mind maps with your final submission.

In Phylica Oppelt’s article in the Sunday Times - Demon of Bullying a


reflection of a brutalised society, she states:

A teenager takes an electric wire, swings it round a beam in the house he


has lived in for most of his life … In the fast ticking seconds before his

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death … did the punches and pulling the jeers and mocking of four
teenagers who had assaulted him the previous day at school ring like
taunting bells in his ears? Was the shame of being beaten in front of
schoolmates the one thing that propelled DH into an unthinkable void of
despair?

This is not an isolated incident and as she says the scale of bullying of
physical brutality among our nation’s children is horrific and occurs in
schools across all classes to both pupils and teachers.

Write an essay of 1000-1200 words (this is about 2-3 typed pages) in


which you discuss why bullying is increasing in our South African schools
and what you think the role and responsibilities of the Department of Basic
Education, the school authorities and/or the parents are in dealing with
this?

Ensure that you discuss the role and responsibilities of all three of the
stake holders and provide reasoning for why you think they have a
responsibility to act or if not, why they should not be involved.

You will be assessed on the following criteria:


LANGUAGE and STRUCTURE: 20
CONTENT: 30

TOTAL: 50 MARKS

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