{"id":295472,"date":"2019-01-27T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=295472"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:08:43","slug":"parents-in-south-africa-are-outsourcing-their-kids-homework-to-get-better-marks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/295472\/parents-in-south-africa-are-outsourcing-their-kids-homework-to-get-better-marks-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents in South Africa are \u201coutsourcing\u201d their kids\u2019 homework to get better marks &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in South Africa are \u201coutsourcing\u201d their kids\u2019 homework to receive better marks, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2019-01-27-experts-slam-practice-of-parents-outsourcing-childrens-homework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sunday Times<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>One man in Durban reportedly is able to put together a science project for a learner for R200, for a mark exceeding 80%.<\/p>\n<p>People advertise their services to parents over social media, the paper said, and includes essay and speech writing.<\/p>\n<p>University students are also advertising school essay writing services for 60 cents a word on Gumtree.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and teachers slammed this practice, with school-based work making up 25% of a child\u2019s year mark.<\/p>\n<p>A parent who spoke to the Sunday Times said that\u00a0kids are buying their way through school, and the \u201coutsourcing of assignments flourished in most of Johannesburg\u2019s wealthy suburbs\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/294938\/home-schooling-is-becoming-a-popular-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home schooling is becoming popular in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in South Africa are \u201coutsourcing\u201d their kids\u2019 homework to receive better marks, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":239537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-295472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295474,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295472\/revisions\/295474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}