EDL3703 Assignment 1 & 2 Semester 2 2024 | Due 14 and 28 August 2024

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 EDL3703 Assignment 1 & 2 Semester 2 2024 | Due 14 and 28 August 2024 – Multiple answers for both assignments.

Assignment 1 – 14 August 2024
1. Learner P (a Grade 6 learner) approaches Learner K (a Grade 4 learner) during the
compulsory lunch break at Embhuleni Primary School. Ernbhuleni Primary is a public school in
Mpumalanga. Learner P tells Learner K that if she does not hand over her iPhone. She will
“beat her up to a pulp”, Learner K refuses to give Learner P her iPhone, so Learner P starts to
beat her up. The educators on duty break up the brawl and Learner P is escorted to the
principal’s office. Learner P has been a problematic learner for the educators of Embhuleni
Primary since Grade 3 and the principal sick and tired of her disruptive behaviour. He decides
to teach her a lesson by telling her to leave the school and to never come back because she does
not deserve the right to a basic education. He even goes as far as hiring security guards to
prevent her from entering the premises. As a paralegal, Learner P and her parents approach
you for advice this matter. Write a legal opinion in which you comprehensively assess Learner
P’s right to a basic education and whether the actions of the school principal were
adminstratively and constitutionally correct.

 Assignment 2 – 28 August 2024
2. With two two relevant cases (namely one related to a learner’s Rastafarian dreadlock
hairstyle and then other to the wearing of a nose-stud by a learner). Briefly explain how the
South African courts have dealt with disputes between learners and school governing bodies
about learners hairstyles and the wearing of certain pieces of jewellery which are contrary to the
school’s code of conduct. In your answer, you must also discuss how the courts have interpreted
the various rights affecting such disputes.